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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Subject: Re: strlen() question 
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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:46:52 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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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).

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