Re: zap eof?

[OkAnnie@xxxxxxxx]

In the "Re: Xywrite books" thread, RAY BUCKO, S.J.
 wrote:

:  When I edit .html files with xywrite
:  in ascii and upload them to the vax I get
:  a little annoying box displaced at the end
:  of the file. How can I get rid of that?

The vax is surely telling you that it doesn't like the ascii 26
(hex 1A) ^Z control character at the end of your file. xyWrite
doesn't display the eof symbol and apparently offers no option to
erase it.

You can, however, download a binary utility that lops off eofs,
and "do" the utility from the xyWrite command line, and can
integrate the utility by writing it into an xpl macro. Any time
xyWrite saves a file with no eof, it adds one. It is the
character that makes an apparently blank file register in a
directory listing as being one character in length.

Many apps add the eof symbol and the control character can cause
problems in various environments, so binary utilities that zap
the eof are common; they often include STRIP in the name. Tony
Woozley mentioned NOCZ.COM on the Nota
Bene board and speculated that it may be in the NB archives. *If*
this refers to the SimTel site (Dorothy? Daniel?), the address
is:

   ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/notabene/

               --annie

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