On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:55:51 -0700
"John W. Krahn" <jwkr...@shaw.ca> wrote:
> stdin (and stdout) are part of a stream protocol and as such are not
> about files and do not signal End-Of-File which is part of why emails
> use the single period to signal the end of the message.
I thought that was from the old mail(1) program. To indicate to it that
you were done typing your message and it could send it, you typed a
single period on a line. And all streams have end of file.
--
Don't stop where the ink does.
Shawn
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