On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Kent Johnson wrote: > End Of File - the condition when no more data is available from a file > or stream. Hi Wenxin, By the way, Eric Raymond's "Jargon File" page is a fun resource for definitions for all those wacky acronyms. Here's the Jargon File's entry on EOF: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/E/EOF.html