Subj : Max subject length: 71 or 72 chars?
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue Aug 27 2019 16:45:02

Hallo Maurice!

 MK> As for the null terminator that is a hangover from strings being
 MK> terminated with nulls.  I am unsure where that idea originates
 MK> but I suspect pre-F77 FORTRAN.

According to Wikipedia it is a C thing but you're right about it being used as 
a string terminator which facillitates variable lengths for strings and has 
nothing to do with a fixed field length of 72 (or 71) bytes.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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