Re: ^Z character in VRML files

Bernie Roehl (broehl@coulomb.uwaterloo.ca)
Wed, 11 Oct 1995 15:07:22 -0400

Tim Wegner writes:
> I agree that old editors that add ^z are an anachronism. But such
> editors do exist today by people who write VRML files. To not
> allow for the possibility of ^z and not handle it geacefully is
> stupid.

Agreed.

> BTW there's a wonderul little public domain editor called TED that
> puts one of those little ^z's at the end of svery text file. It was
> published by PC magazine and I'll bet there are a lot of users. Runs
> fine under Win95.

The most amazing thing about TED is that the entire editor fits in less
than 4k bytes of code!

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