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Directly after reading the title the question "what does ^D do" was fired at a Old Unix Beard friend of Mine who happens to be here for coffee. Instant reply W

by coretx 10y ago

Directly after reading the title the question "what does ^D do" was fired at a Old Unix Beard friend of Mine who happens to be here for coffee. Instant reply Without any latency: "It originally was meant to terminate the Tape drive"

kps 10y ago
[citation needed] I suspect they're misremembering what the T in EOT stands for.
- brianpan 10y ago
  For the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-Transmission_character https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-Transmission_character