Subject: Ctrl-Z at end of file

From: Deborah Teale <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 11:27:52 PST

Some of our users are gravitating to using pico on AIX system with 
'another' mailer elm but I also notice this happens when selecting compose 
in pine.  The last line of an imported file from in my example 
WordPerfect generated text file does not end in newline but a Ctrl-Z.  
Pico complains about a funny line at EOF but drops the last line.  Using 
PINE3.87.  Is this changed in later versions or are there plans to change 
pico's action?

Deborah Teale                     [email-masked]
University of Calgary

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 10:51:03 -0800 (PST)

Deborah,

Ctrl-Z is the end-of-file character for DOS.  This should get filtered out if
you use a text-mode transfer rather than a binary transfer between DOS and
Unix.  Pine 3.89 also handles binary DOS files much better than Pine 3.87
did.  Thanks for the report!

--DLM

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