Re: [Chicken-users] read-line (and probably other input routines) - unexpected behaviour when reading binary files on Windows

[John Cowan]

$) scripsit:

> The weird thing is that Scheme IO treats #\x1a (character with code 27) as
> #!eof when reading from file. 

This is a behavior hardwired into the Windows C library for compatibility
(I kid you not) with the CP/M operating system for 8-bit micros, which
did not record the exact length of a file in the file system and had to
use Ctrl-Z as a conventional EOF mark.  This behavior was in turn inherited
from the ancient DEC operating systems OS/8 and RT-11.

Turning on binary mode for the file will suppress this behavior.

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