Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!fred
From: fred@maccs.McMaster.CA (Fred Whiteside)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Struggling through the "C"
Message-ID: <2393@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Date: 11 Apr 89 03:52:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.2393
References: <2570@ssc-vax.UUCP> <DEVEN.89Apr7055409@daniel.pawl.rpi.edu> <3697@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: fred@maccs.UUCP (Fred Whiteside)
Organization: McMaster U., Hamilton, Ont., Can.
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In article <3697@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
<In article <DEVEN.89Apr7055409@daniel.pawl.rpi.edu>, deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) writes:
<> In article <2570@ssc-vax.UUCP> dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) writes:
<> [...]
<> >Since '\0' is equivalent to 0 on most systems,
<> [...]
<
<> Excuse me?  Name ONE system where '\0' is NOT zero???
<
<I don't know if a 'C' compiler exists for the CDC 6400, but in their 6-bit
<character set ' ' has the ascii value '\00'. The only unused value, I think,
<is '\77'.
<-- 
<Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva      `-_-'
<...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com  'U`

    Gee, Peter, On our old CDC it was the colon ':' that had a six bit value
  of zero. Space ' ' was 55 (octal). Remember that good old =xzfn routine?
  I never did figure out how that one worked ... Ah the fun of printing
  ":D" to a users terminal ... (Sorry about the non-amiga stuff)

   BTW has anyone plugged an ASDG 8M for the 1000 into a SupraDrive 4x4
 before? I thought that I had read that there was a problem with the memory
 not being real close to the machine ie. first in line. Actually, I mean
 plugging a mini-rack C into the Supra; the 8M is just a card ....

-fred whiteside
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