From:	Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: fin problem with djgpp
Date:	Mon, 14 Sep 1998 18:26:42 -0300
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Arnold K. Poon wrote:
>     The program is suppose to read each line and print that out.
> However, when I use DJGPP to compile, I got an extra line of output. The
> EOF variable was NOT set to ZERO after reading file, therefore the while
> loop enters 1 more time and print out some bogus output.
> 
>     However, if i compile with MSVC++5.0 (default workspace), I did not
> get this problem.
> 
>     Am I using EOF correctly? or is there something different between
> MSVC and DJGPP compiler?
	EOF is not set to true until an attempt to retreive a variable FAILS.  This
does not happen until AFTER the last line is entered.  If you changed it to
say "file.peek()!=EOF", then that will likely work.

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