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From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
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Subject: Re: Str255 in C
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Date: 14 Jan 91 22:22:24 GMT
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In-Reply-To: lindahl@violet.berkeley.edu's message of 14 Jan 91 18:48:39 GMT

In article <1991Jan14.184839.11516@agate.berkeley.edu> lindahl@violet.berkeley.edu (Ken Lindahl   642-0866) writes:

   How can we confident that the
   "\p..." in the call to strcpy will be null-terminated? (I don't have the
   THINK docs in front of me, so I apologize in advance if the answer to my
   question is RTFM.)

TFM says, on the middle of p.121:

   Note: Pascal strings are not null terminated.

Apology accepted ;-)

- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
  Division of Mathematical Sciences
  The Norwegian Institute of Technology
  N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY