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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Null terminator patent disclosure
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.161038.4202@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 91 16:10:38 GMT
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In article <1991Apr1.052315.16971@contact.uucp> egr@contact.uucp (Gordan Palameta) writes:
>
>                                        Lextech SA
>                                        1, rue des Poissons d'avril
>                                        67000 Strasbourg, France
>
>                                        Lextech America
>                                        666 Massachusetts Avenue
>                                        Cambridge, MA 02139   USA
>
>
>     Dear member of the "C" programming community,
>
>
>     As you are no doubt aware, the "C" programming language uses the
>     "null terminator octet" method to delimit strings of characters.
>
>     This method consists of using an aligned set of eight consecutive
>     zero bits to unambiguously mark the termination point of a text string
>     stored in a character array.
>


What? Me worry? My computer uses nine bit chars.