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by jokh 2650 days ago
Why doesn't Windows drop the purported compatibility with CP/M and get rid of control-z being a special file marker at this point? Lots of legacy code relying on it?
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JdeBP 2649 days ago
It's not in Windows in the first place. The headlined article does explicitly say this.

It's library code in a large number of applications programs.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/dos-character-26-is-not-special.html

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Arnavion 2649 days ago
FWIW it's generally advised to not open files in text mode on Windows anyway. The handling of \x1A is one reason. The automatic mangling of newlines into Windows newlines is another.

Edit: And while cmd's type does process it, modern stuff like PS's Get-Content does not.

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Thorrez 2649 days ago
Someone could even write new code that relies on it.
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