Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] None
Date: Sunday, 01 Nov 2020, 08:06:59

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > If you touch a file "b", and then do /c/cs323/Hwk4/encode < b, why is
    > there a blank line printed in the solution code? Shouldn't nothing be
    > printed?

Why do you think it printed a blank line?  What does the
command

  % /c/cs323/Hwk4/encode < b | od -bc

report?

Why do you think that the result should be the empty file?

--Stan-