From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: EOF
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 20:28:49 -0800
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Joe Wright wrote:
> 
> What key do I press to have getchar() return EOF?  I have tried
> everything I can think of, ^D, ^Z, ^X.  Nothing seems to do it.  I get
> out of the thing with ^C which is an error, of course.

AFAIK, under DOS the EOF character has no special significance when read
from a tty device such as stdin.  All you will get is the ASCII code for
^Z.  The only way that getchar() could ever return EOF is if stdin were
redirected to a file or pipe.

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