[fpc-pascal] #26 as EOF marker?

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Wed Sep 2 11:00:52 CEST 2009


On 02 Sep 2009, at 10:44, leledumbo wrote:

> Does FPC use #26 as EOF marker?

Only on platforms that traditionally use #26 as EOF marker. Afaik,  
these are Dos, Windows and OS/2.

> I use a loop that calls Read until it meets
> EOF, and right before the loop ends, #26 is met. This happens at  
> least on
> Windows (other platforms untested).

There is a global variable in the system unit called CtrlZMarksEOF  
that you can set to false if you want to disable this behaviour.


Jonas



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