29 Dec
2007
29 Dec
'07
9:33 p.m.
At 11:09 PM 12/29/2007, you wrote:
Does anyone know why SUB (0x1A, 26) was used to denote
an EOF in CP/M
and, to some extent, DOS text files?
Tom Jennings has a nice guide here:
http://www.wps.com/projects/codes/index.html
although it does not answer your question.
I believe the answer is DEC's PIP, from its char to terminate
user input? But it didn't get stored in the file, it was just UI, no?
The Jargon Chaff file also refers to CTRL/Z / SUB as "line starve":
http://www.catb.org/jargon/chaff.html
- John