trailing blank line in a text file

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

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.


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