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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Settle a bet please
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 09:33:39 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <3160ac92.4228059@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>,
- Kevin D. Quitt <kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
- >On Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:57:49 -0600, The Amorphous Mass
- ><robinson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote:
- >> If you want to use the array as a string, you have to set aside space
- >>for the null terminator ('null', not 'NULL').
- >
- >NUL, not null or NULL
-
- Actually it is 'null', because that is the right english word that is vaguely
- synonmymous with zero, void The symbol NUL is specific to ASCII, I think, like
- FF=formfeed, LF=linefeed, EOT=end of text and others. Does EBCDIC also call its
- null character NUL?
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