30 Aug
2006
30 Aug
'06
10:42 a.m.
> How many ways are there of representing variable
length character strings?
> And how many have you run into? Off the top of my head, I've seen--on the
> MS-DOS/Windows platform the following: byte count+data, word count+data,
> data terminated by 00, data terminated by 0a, data terminated by 0d, data
> terminated by 1F, and probably a few others that don't occur to me right
> off.
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Some of the CP/M tools used $ as a string terminator,
if I'm remembering
right...
Still there in Int 21h function 9!
also, fixed length with padding character (FCBs),
also, keeping start and end pointers