Null terminator patent disclosure

[Doug McDonald]

In article <1991Apr1.052315.16971 at contact.uucp> egr at contact.uucp (Gordan Palameta) writes:
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>     Dear member of the "C" programming community,
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>     As you are no doubt aware, the "C" programming language uses the
>     "null terminator octet" method to delimit strings of characters.
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>     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.
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What? Me worry? My computer uses nine bit chars.