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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Reading files containing X'00
Message-ID: <43093@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Jul 90 04:10:39 GMT
References: <1990Jul17.121924.25050@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1990Jul17.121924.25050@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
psych@watserv1.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology) writes:
> [...]  When HC reads the files it converts all the
>hex 00 to a space (hex 40). This is not cool.

HyperCard uses the null character (ASCII 0) as an end-of-string
marker, which means you cannot use nulls in variables.

Unfortunately, I don't know of any workaround for this.
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