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From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: Null terminator patent disclosure
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.200726.16547@druid.uucp>
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
References: <1991Apr1.052315.16971@contact.uucp> <2169@pdxgate.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 91 20:07:26 GMT

In article <2169@pdxgate.UUCP> Craig Nelson writes:
>egr@contact.uucp (Gordan Palameta) writes:
>>     Please be advised that the "null terminator octet" method is
>>     covered by US Patent 4 910401 granted to Lextech SA, and as
>>     such may not be used without permission.
>> [ Balance of April fool's posting deleted ]
>
>	For those who are willing to put up with this crap, I have a
>suggestion.  Declare all your strings one extra byte long and rewrite
>your strXXX functions to look for two (2) "8 bit 0" bytes.  Then lets
>all write a letter to Lex and tell them where they can stick the extra
>byte.

It's hard to tell if the above reply is also an April fool's joke but just
in case it isn't, want to talk about some swampland in Florida?

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