OpenEuphoria

Re: getc() ?? bug

• Posted by Bernie <xotron at PCOM.NET> Nov 20, 2000
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:00:05 +1100, Derek Parnell <derekp at SOLACE.COM.AU>
wrote:
>So blame the DOS designers. The interpreter is not wrong in this case. How
>can it know that for this specific text file, the ASCII-26 is not to be
>interpreted as EOF, but on others it is? And just because DOS has a glyph
>assigned to ASCII-26, does mean that it is a "printable" character
according
>to ASCII or ANSI.
>
>Anyhow, the Euphoria behaviour is already documented. Here is an extract
>from the open() documentation.


   I still disagree.

   I should be able to open ANY disk file in ANY mode and read it and it
   should NEVER return -1 or EOF UNTIL it reaches the very end of the
   file and at no other time NO MATTER what text it contains look at
   the DOS interrupts the AX register indicates when it reachs an EOF.
   The context of the file should have nothing to do with it. The
   reason that euphoria is wrong is because it is trying to use the
   same function to get input from the keyboard.

   Bernie