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by nixpulvis 2291 days ago
I'm just reading up on this now. But according to Wikipedia "CP/M used the 7-bit ASCII set", so then character 26 would be the "SUB (substitute)" character. No?

EDIT: Seems like 26 = EOF is a DOS thing.

EDIT 2: Some confusing comments: https://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=228760

EDIT 3: A pretty good thread (read NigelQ's replay): http://forums.codeguru.com/showthread.php?181171-End-of-File...