On 2014-07-09 01:24, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Tim Chase > > Okay, EOF is the canonical way to tell a program reading stdin > > that you're done. It just happens that EOF ^D on *nix-likes and > > ^Z on Win32. :-) > > > > -tkc > > I can't think of any Windows-native programs that ask for EOF. Only > those which came from POSIX platforms do it. That said, though, > Windows doesn't tend to encourage interactive command-line programs > at all, so you may as well just follow the Unix convention.
There was a time in life where I used "copy con output.txt" on a disturbingly frequent basis. Control+Z ended my file for me. -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
