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- Subject: Re: What is a right hand pointing arrow?
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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
- Date: 18 Feb 96 20:30:49 GMT
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- In <4g7lrc$kg3@barnacle.iol.ie> jab@iol.ie (J Alan Brogan) writes:
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- >Auke.Reitsma@net.HCC.nl (Auke Reitsma) wrote:
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- >>That right arrow is a end of file marker for text files. Its value is
- >>0x27.
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- >the decimal value is 27,
- >
- >0x27 is ' (single quote)
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- 27 (033 or 0x1B) is ASCII ESC
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- 26 (aka ^Z) is used by some brain dead MSDOS software as an end of file
- marker.
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- Dan
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