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  1. Path: jacare.zk3.dec.com!zeeb
  2. From: zeeb@jacare.zk3.dec.com (Jeff Zeeb DEC C)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: PL/I and C
  5. Date: 27 Feb 1996 14:44:41 GMT
  6. Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
  7. Distribution: world
  8. Message-ID: <4gv5cp$hf8@zk2nws.zko.dec.com>
  9. References: <4gh5ru$eng@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <312CCEB2.4AB7@corp.dialog.com> <4grhtv$s31@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
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  15. In article <4grhtv$s31@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>, rav@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (++           robin) writes:
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  17. >   And what happens when you actually w*a*n*t a zero byte in your
  18. >C character string?
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  20. You use the mem* set of functions rather than the str* set of functions.
  21. The mem* functions are bounded by a count parameter, not a null byte.
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  24. Jeff Zeeb                  This article represents my opinions and not those
  25. zeeb@decc.enet.dec.com     of Digital Equipment Corp. (Surprise!)
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