Amhexa.111 net.unix-wizards utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!eagle!mhuxj!bwkna!mhexa!bis Thu Mar 11 16:05:57 1982 Re: Periodic confusion Re "periodic confusion" article CNTL-D may be great for UNIX full-timers, but is terrible for casual users, secretaries, and others who only occasionally use UNIX. Perhaps the best solution (what do you, the community, think of this) is to define a function iseof() which returns TRUE iff the entered input line is any of the entries defined in shell variable EOF (or some similar name). Then different users can use different standards, and standards can be changed on the fly to accomodate special conditions (such as editor "." lines). ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.