Null terminator patent disclosure

[Joan Tine]

In article <1991Apr1.161038.4202 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald at aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
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>In article <1991Apr1.052315.16971 at contact.uucp> egr at contact.uucp (Gordan Palameta) writes:
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>>                                        Lextech SA
>>                                        1, rue des Poissons d'avril
>>                                        67000 Strasbourg, France
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>>                                        Lextech America
>>                                        666 Massachusetts Avenue
>>                                        Cambridge, MA 02139   USA
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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.
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Huh?  Are we?  Huh?