How good is YOUR UNIX?

[Steven M. Kramer]

What will:
	fprintf (file, "string with zero %c in it\n", '\0');

do on YOUR machine (assuming file is properly decared to be FILE * and
a file is opened OK...).
For you slow ones, the point is will the zero byte actually get
printed out?  If not, your doprnt has a bug.  Some doprnt()s know
the character argument is turned into an integer (basic C stuff).
Doprnt reads bytes, checks to see if 0, if so, backs up in the resultant
string and then goes to the next byte for sizeof(int)/sizeof(char)
on your machine.  The bug is that you can't print a '\0'!  ...and yes,
I want to for instance when I want to write strings to a file WITH the
null byte.
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