Re: NULL

Ned Freed <NED@sigurd.innosoft.com> Wed, 19 October 1994 04:08 UTC

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From: Ned Freed <NED@sigurd.innosoft.com>
Subject: Re: NULL
In-Reply-To: Your message dated "Tue, 18 Oct 1994 11:06:28 +0100" <"relay1.pip.790:18.09.94.10.06.42"@pipex.net>
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> It would also be useful to hear from any implementors of RFC-1652: do
> they, in fact, "preserve all bits in each octet passed using the DATA
> command"?

PMDF handles NULs just fine and doesn't lose them, but this is easy given
that PMDF uses counted strings rather than null terminated strings throughout.

					Ned