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From: hokey@plus5.UUCP (Hokey)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Questions about C on a Prime (primix)
Message-ID: <988@plus5.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 16:06:15 EST
Article-I.D.: plus5.988
Posted: Tue Mar 18 16:06:15 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Mar-86 03:20:31 EST
Organization: Plus Five Computer Services, St. Louis
Lines: 21
Keywords: Primix, C, char, NUL

I went over to the local Prime office the other day in order to port some
software.  After the initial shock of having of discovering I will have to run
each file through dd in order to put it into the compressed/high-bit-on format
(a real thrill, they should have a special tar program to do it all at once),
I was told that their C port keeps the 8th bit *on* for all ascii characters.

This seems kind of strange.  Near as I can tell, this means the following
code fragment won't work:

	strcpy(dst, src)
	    char *dst;
	    char *src; {

		while(*dst++ = *src++) ;
		return;}

Can this be true?  If so, are there any other details I should know before
I try to do this again?
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