Sean Butler wrote:
>
> You could just use an unprintable character, or even the NULL
> character to terminate a string when you write it to disk.
> ie. instead of Name : Joe~
> you would write Name : Joe\0
> to the disk.
> There would be no way for someone to insert a NULL character, since
> all this would do is terminate the string they are editing.
>
> --Sean
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Then what is the point of them being anscii if you cannot freely
manipulate them under the shell?
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