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Kent.Dalton kentd at FtCollins.NCR.com
Thu Apr 4 21:11:10 AEST 1991


>>>>> On 2 Apr 91 11:38:36 GMT, fguille at issy (Francois Guillemot - Sun France Software Support) said:


 > Should'nt the *really really correct* version allocate an extra character
 > in the retbuf array for the end of string delimiter \0 ???

 No! No! No! that's not allowed anymore... apparently you haven't heard
that the NULL terminater has been patented?! Sheesh, where've you been!

Sorry folks, I couldn't resist.

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