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- From: dlmiller@iquest.net (Doug Miller)
- Subject: Re: Settle a bet please
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- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 14:01:32 GMT
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- c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) wrote:
- >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?
- >--
- >
- Yep.
-