Re: Null byte in source physical file

["rick baird" <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are the source members usable?  i.e. can you compile them?

On 4/13/06, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I encountered the oddest thing the other day ... I found a source
> physical file member, of DDS source for a print file (created RLU, I
> think), that had a null byte (x'00') in the MIDDLE of a record.
>
> It was on one of the marker lines ... "A*%%RI 00000".  The null byte was
> at the end of the text (after the last 0).
>
> This was NOT a fluke either ... a bunch of DDS source files encountered
> have this null byte.
>
> The source members are pretty old (created as demo data for
> Implementer), so I don't know if it was the remnants of a bug in RLU, or
> what.
>
> Pretty weird.
>
> david
>
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