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Subject: | Re: Engineering Units |
From: | [email protected] (Jeff Hill) |
To: | [email protected] |
Cc: | [email protected] |
Date: | Fri, 22 Sep 95 11:06:57 MDT |
> > RE: 8 character units field. > > > > I vote to step on the 8th character position to guarantee null terminated > > strings. Then cdev can cleanly use get_units(). > > Agreed. > Also agree. Null termination must be guaranteed. If this breaks a rare client then we will only be required to fix that client. If we go with an inconsistent interface then we will add extra code (amd development time) to all clients. Jeff