Re: How to use control-D character?

[Ian Lance Taylor]

ali hagigat <address@hidden> writes:

> My question is about as, GNU assembler, Version 2.14 and I have copied
> the related extract from the manual:
> -----------------------------------------
> 1.5 Input Files
> If you give 'as' no file names it attempts to read one input file from
> the as standard input,
> which is normally your terminal. You may have to type ctl-D to tell as
> there is no more
> program to assemble.
> ----------------------------------------
>
> How can i use <ctl-D> key combination? Will it be typed at the end of
> 'as' command line?
> When i type:
> as <ctl-D>
> 'as' will wait for user to enter some lines of instruction!!
>
> If I use 'as' alone and then enter some assembly lines , how can i
> terminate the input terminal text and make 'as' assemble the lines I
> have written?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-file

In other words, type

as
your input file
^D

This assumes that you are using Unix or GNU/Linux; you didn't say.

Ian