Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter 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 References: <1296@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 14 > 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.