Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:46:52 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strlen() question Message-ID: <E0vvGU1-0001xO-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:52:59 MST." <199702132252.PAA01765@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199702132252.PAA01765@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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In message <199702132252.PAA01765@phaeton.artisoft.com> Terry Lambert writes: : "NUL" : with one "L" is the invention of a Pascal programmer with nothing : better to do than to make noises about sign-extension on non-two's : complement hardware for type demotion of 0 to character. Ummm, no that's nil. NUL is listed in the ASCII standard as being the official mnemonic for the character occupying the 0th slot. Just like dc1 is control S and dc3 is control Q (for Device Control). This nit pickers corner brought to you by: Warner
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