My Mickeyterm/Ctrl-z Headache

Joachim Ott jo.omsl at googlemail.com
Sun Nov 30 12:48:00 CET 2008


2008/11/30 Joerg Reisenweber <joerg at openmoko.org>

> Ctrl-D is a shortcut for "exit" *only* when given at start of line.
> Generally Ctrl-D is "ETX" what's exactly what I would expect for "end of
> SMS"


Check  "stty -a". The standard value for "eof" is "^D" and it is used to
signal EOF on STDIN. When you do "cat >file", a ctrl-D at the beginning of a
line signals EOF and "cat" terminates. Same in the shell, ctrl-D at the
beginning of a line signals EOF and the shell terminates.
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