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- From: Karlon West <karlon@netcom.com>
- Subject: Re: What is a right hand pointing arrow?
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- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 04:00:26 GMT
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- Dan Pop wrote:
- >
- > In <4g7lrc$kg3@barnacle.iol.ie> jab@iol.ie (J Alan Brogan) writes:
- >
- > >Auke.Reitsma@net.HCC.nl (Auke Reitsma) wrote:
- > >
- > >
- > >>That right arrow is a end of file marker for text files. Its value is
- > >>0x27.
- > >
- > >the decimal value is 27,
- > >
- > >0x27 is ' (single quote)
- >
- > 27 (033 or 0x1B) is ASCII ESC
- >
- > 26 (aka ^Z) is used by some brain dead MSDOS software as an end of file
- > marker.
- >
- > DanIt's useless drivel like this that make this group a chore to read
- through. None of the above has anything to do with comp.lang.c, and if
- you're gonna talk about msdos, perhaps you should send it to
- one of the msdos groups, where people might care about crap like this.
-
- This is simply one more reason why ignorants and idiots should keep
- their mouth shut, when they choose to extend a useless thread in
- a group that already has too many useless threads.
-
- Next time before you followup on an off-topic thread, please,
- first read the FAQ, then don't post.
-
- Karlon
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- (sarcasm off)
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