--- On Wed, 3/3/10, D'Arcy J.M. Cain  wrote:

> They needed a way to tell where the end of the information
> was.  Why
> they used ^Z (SUB - Substitute) instead of ^C (ETX - End of
> TeXt) or
> even ^D (EOT - End Of Transmission) is anyone's guess.

That has always puzzled me to. ETX and EOT were well established, why no use 
one of them? I'd love to know what they were thinking.

   -EdK

Ed Keith
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