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From: romkey%mit-borax@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: help needed to download ascii null from unix
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Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 18:08:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 31 18:08:39 1984
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From:  John L. Romkey 


Doing a write(2,"",1) shouldn't write the first byte of your address
space! The compiler should cons up a string which consists of a '\0'
character and push the address of the string as the second argument in
the write. Since the system call was told to write one byte, it'll
write a '\0' (or 0 or NULL or whatever you like).
						- John Romkey
						  romkey@mit-borax