Re: weird eof marker in text file?

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From: Rick Rothstein (rickNOSPAMnews_at_NOSPAMcomcast.net)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:55:41 -0500

> Chances are, you're correct. I suggested a hex editor to
> make sure. Good ol' Ctrl-Z

Or start up a copy of VB, type this in the Immediate window

     ? asc("")

then go back to Notepad, highlight the "funny looking" box character and
press Ctrl+C (to Copy the character into Windows clipboard). Then switch
back to VB and Paste the copy of the character in-between the quote
marks to produce this

     ? asc("")

Then hit the Enter key to see the ASCII value of the box character. For
this character, it show 26.

Rick

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