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Re: QBUS Prototyping

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In article <iohkc0$kn7$1@Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> writes:
> 
>>     And in practice, I would not trust any FTP client or FTP server to
>>     transmit a line of text containing an embeded null character without
>>     first proving to myself that it worked.  Nor would I be particularly
>>     comfortable that it was unlikely to break in some future update.
> 
> Hmm. I should check this, but I believe ftp also specifies how to handle 
> NUL characters correctly.
> Of course, you can always find standards breaking software.

   Yes, that's the point.  It's trivial to write C code that can't
   handle nulls in text.  FTP as a standard has no problem with it, but
   the odds of running into a non-conforming implementation on this one
   are failry high.

> 
>>     Well, OK, maybe if I was transfering the text between two systems that
>>     implimented STRU VMS.
> 
> It should not make a difference.

   STRU VMS implements records.  Whatever you want in them.

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Re: QBUS Prototyping koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-04-18 07:52 -0500
  Re: QBUS Prototyping Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-18 08:11 -0700
    Re: QBUS Prototyping koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-04-18 12:51 -0500
  FTP is 40 years old Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-19 12:29 +0200

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