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Re: Counted string

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Counted string
Date 2015-01-27 15:43 +0000
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID <2015Jan27.164302@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
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Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> writes:
>Huh?  No.  You seem to think that C's ways of doings things are how
>things are actually done.  In unix-speak, You should read section 2 of
>the manpages, instead of just section 3.  The fundamental I/O functions
>all work with ANS Forth strings, basically.

write() and read() do, but, e.g., open() takes a zero-terminated
string.  That's not surprising, after C was developed to implement
Unix, and it's no wonder the same string formats are used for both.

- anton
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