On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:35:38PM -0400, Robert Locke wrote: ....> > How does one have a line without an end to the line? I always assumed > that all lines ended with <LF>, including the last line of the file.... > I can conjecture the creation of text at the end of the file without a > <LF> at their end, but that to me is not really a line. I guess I fall > back to more of a read loop, I suppose.... In this case I suspect "End of file" is solving the problem that a missing "end of line" might generate. -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/dull where insight begins.