Signals and dbx

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Wed Feb 6 07:45:18 AEST 1991


In article <6992 at alpha.cam.nist.gov> coleman at cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672) writes:
>Does ^D produce a signal ?

Not under normal circumstances.  Usually that character is used to
delimit chunks of input text; whatever has been typed (in canonicalizing
mode) up to the so-called EOF character is made available for reading
and the EOF character is discarded.  No signal is involved.



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