The following code terminates with the above error prior to reading the last
word from the file regardless of filesize.
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import stream;

int main()
{
  char[] str;
  File file = new File("words.dat");

  while(!file.eof())
  {
    file.scanf("%.*s", &str);
    printf("%.*s\n", str);
  }
  return 0;
}

Andrew