Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!yogi From: yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Joseph Gil) Subject: Re: Null terminator patent disclosure Message-ID: <1991Apr1.145349.5464@cs.ubc.ca> Sender: usenet@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News) Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada References: <1991Apr1.052315.16971@contact.uucp> <2169@pdxgate.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 91 14:53:49 GMT >egr@contact.uucp (Gordan Palameta) writes: > >> zero bits to unambiguously mark the termination point of a text string >> stored in a character array. > >> Please be advised that the "null terminator octet" method is >> covered by US Patent 4 910401 granted to Lextech SA, and as ^^^^^^ what else should be said? >> lots ob bla/bla deleted.