Are you on a Windows platform of some kind (I guess so, from your mail
headers)? I vaguely remember having a problem like this (in Python,
IIRC) because MSDOS used ^Z (ASCII 26) as an end of file marker. So
low-level Win32 file access routines still interpret this character as
end-of-file. I g
> Andre W B Furtado wrote:
> [ EOF at Ctrl-Z problem ]
Sounds like you're using WinDoze which interprets Ctrl-Z as EOF in
non-binary files IIRC (great idea, BTW! :-}. Alas, you have to use
non-standard features (openFileEx or hSetBinaryMode) to get around
this, see:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc
Hello there. I was trying to
read a bitmap file using hGetChar but I had a problem: if the file contains the
byte 26-decimal (or 1A-hexa) the program aborts. Here you have the
output:
Fail: end of file
Action: hGetChar
Since hGetChar is implemented
with getc, I created a similar
