Aucbvax.2399 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!saks@LL-XN Wed Jul 22 06:32:48 1981 fread and read from a terminal From: Joft Saks Spencer Thomas is quite right. See the 'TTY' entry in section 4 of the UNIX manual for a description of how the terminal handles EOT's. In particular, the manual says that the EOT signifies only the end of a given transmission (i.e., if the transmission does not end with a '\n'). End-of-file is actually indicated by reception of a zero-length transmission. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.