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ASCII -1 character

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Many of the files we have on our OpenVMS platform get terminated with series of non-printable ASCII "-1" characters with look like the letter y with a colon hovering above it on it's side. I'm not sure but it appears the OS automatically places that in the file. However, it could be some of the C programming we are using to open, write and close the file. It doesn't appear to be related to OpenVMS file attributes though. Is there any way to get rid of them using C source code? Thanks!

Name: ME
Date: October 6, 2002 at 15:48:28 Pacific

Reply:

Maybe some program writes the EOF literal (defined as -1 in stdio.h) to the file ? Or are you reading beyond EOF and the remaining part of the allocated blocks are filled with EOF's ?

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