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  6. From: hashmi@cnj.digex.net (Atiqullah Hashmi)
  7. Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
  8. Subject: is there any effect of ANDing a byte with 0377 (octal)?
  9. Date: 12 Oct 1995 10:52:07 -0400
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  16.  
  17.  
  18. Hi,
  19.  
  20. In one communcation software I work with, I see that  before transmiting
  21. some chars., they are ANDed with '0377' (octal 377) which  is 011 111 111.
  22. It seems that it will just leave the 8-bit byte as is.
  23. Am I missing something ?
  24.  
  25. Atiq