From: Sonny Chee <sonny.chee@...>
Date: 2007-04-16T11:56:48+09:00
Subject: Re: End-of-file character...

Thanks for the clarification Austin.

I'm actually to trying to solve the following problem. I've been 
redirecting the contents of a_file to an os_command, ie:

os_command < a_file

Usually a_file is very small and I have to create this file before 
invoking the os_command.  Is it possible to avoid the creation of a_file 
and just pass its contents directly to os_command?

Sonny.


> There is, in fact, no "end-of-file" character on
> Unix, and Ctrl-Z (0x26) is the end-of-file character on Windows only
> when the file is not opened in binary mode. It is conventional for a
> terminal to accept Ctrl-D (0x04) as an end of file character, but this
> is convention, not standard.
> 
> If you want to close a file, just close it. The underlying routines
> will do the appropriate work necessary.
> 
> -austin


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