Talk:End-of-file

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"ASCII control characters are out-of-band non-printing characters". Actually, ASCII control characters are in-band. -- 18:47, 13 November 2006 84.165.168.107

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This article requires cleanup. Like so many people care how to get this symbol by typing into a DOS console or what C thinks EOF is... the bottom line that EOF is ASCII symbol #26 isn't even mentioned.--89.212.75.6 18:28, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

People who care about the subject matter of the article would often be interested in the details. And EOF is not ASCII character 26 (Ctrl-Z) -- rather, one (unofficial) interpretation of ASCII character 26 (Ctrl-Z) is as having the EOF function. However, other entities can also symbolize "EOF" in other contexts, including 255 (i.e. -1), 4 (i.e. control-D), etc. AnonMoos 19:12, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] end-of-stream

I came across the phrase end-of-stream (EOS) a couple of times while reading about streams, for example here. Is it correct that end-of-stream is synonymous to end-of-file and if yes, would mentioning EOS in this article be good? --Abdull 19:03, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tape mark implementation

I'd suggest that Tape Marks as EOF indicators and file separators belongs in this article, but the details of the implementation belong in the 7 track & 9 track articles (and QIC, DDS, Exabyte, ....). RDBrown (talk) 22:42, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps. The beginning of the article discusses what is EOF in Unix etc. which are details of a particular implemetantion, in fact. There would not be much left. Do those articles have the info what the tape marks are? Maybe a separate article on tape mark? Jmath666 (talk) 22:52, 31 March 2008 (UTC)