[KLUG Members] remote copy of /homes directory

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Sun Dec 5 10:13:53 EST 2004


> > >  The input stream must contain an end of file character then?
> > I don't know how it is encoded, but EOF is communicated across the pipe.
> EOF is ASCII Character 4 (Ctrl-D).  This is how EOF is usually sent to a
> stream.

But UNIX pipes are binary (and thus UniCode, etc...) safe; so I suspect
some type of deeper magick is at work here,  either EOF is automatically
wrapped and unwrapped in an escaping formula or some type of signal is
used.



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