Anne Wilson grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> On Friday 01 Aug 2003 5:49 pm, Felix Miata wrote:
> >
> > This is the old fashioned way, something I learned in 1973.
>
> Hmmm - I suppose the 'd' stood for something?
Nope. Control-D is simply used as an end-of-file indicator. If you EOF a
*lot* of different program inputs, it will end that program (or at least,
end it from looking for further input :). In the case of a shell prompt,
it's *only* looking for input from you, so if you EOF it, it assums that
you're done and closes.
--Dave
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