Help : File does not end with newline

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:24:19PM -0400, dewar@gnat.com wrote:
><<Cygwin is a little strange, however, in that it tries to straddle the
>worlds of Windows and UNIX.  The special behavior of CTRL-Z was
>actually causing other problems with ported UNIX tools, even in text
>mode.  That is why we decided to eliminate it.
>
>interesting, can you elaborate.  I certainly think is is a bad idea to
>*generate* 1A characters, but recognizing them *at the end of the file
>only* seems like it should be completely harmless.  I suspect baby and
>bath water here :-)

I don't think that elaboration is really a subject for the gcc mailing
list.

Feel free to broach the discussion at cygwin@cygwin.com, however.

cgf