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Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> writes:

>                                        I suspect that there are a great
> many places - shell scripts and C source code leap to mind - where the
> lack of a terminating newline at the end of a file does not cause the
> line to be ignored altogether.

In both of those cases, the relevant standards say that such input is
invalid.