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Bart Schuller <schuller@lunatech.com> writes: >On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:09:30PM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: >> (One grumbling alligator - on Win32 "text mode" files not only do CRLF->'\n' >> but also treat ^Z as end-of-file - I have ignored ^Z so far - suggestions >> as to what the "right" thing to do would be wellcome.) > >I'd love to hear from people/programs who actually use this "feature". They don't know they are using it... >And wasn't it really DOS or even an ancestor of that that used it last? CP/M did not store the file length in the directory just a sector count. The ^Z allowed you to have files which were not a multiple of sector size. DOS (even with 12-bit FAT) has always allowed binary files on floppies. > >Are there functions in the Win32 API that will write a ^Z in textmode? fclose() will write one depending on the "mode". I have no idea what happens if user-code writes one - I expect it just goes through. -- Nick Ing-SimmonsThread Previous | Thread Next