On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > On 2014-07-09 01:24, Chris Angelico wrote: >> 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. > > And within the last 10 minutes doing some work on a Win32 box, I > noticed that both the "wmic" console (standard since at least XP I > believe) and Python use EOF to quit (both provide alternate methods of > quitting, but EOF is fast & easy). >
Python doesn't count, as it's cross-platform; lots of programs work the same way on all their platforms, and it doesn't say anything about the expectations of native Windows apps. But wmic, that's a better example. Counter-example: Command-line FTP on Windows doesn't react to Ctrl-Z, which annoys me somewhat when I move from one to another. (Not as much as it annoys me by not supporting passive mode, though. I generally have to turn to a web browser to do basic FTP downloads across a VM boundary, and for uploads, I either have to go fetch a better FTP client (like FileZilla), or - as I've often done - whip up a few lines of basic TCP socket file transfer, because I can do that at an interactive interpreter faster than most people can move files any other way.) hrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
