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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: EOL WAR
Message-ID: <203@graffiti.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 17:36:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: graffiti.203
Posted: Mon Sep 16 17:36:23 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 06:05:13 EDT
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> HOLD IT, HOLD IT !!!
> 
> Sorry to start such a war by suggesting:
> 
> #define		EOL		'\0'
> 
> I had used this definition a couple of times when manipulating text coming
> from human-type interfaces (i.e. computer control of human interfaces).
> While manipulating such "lines"
> of text, I would remove format characters and terminate the string with an
> EOL (\0).

Why not call it an EOS? As you point out, what you're dealing with aren't
really lines anyway.