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In article <08201996233226um@snowyowl.co.uk>
           kempson@snowyowl.co.uk "Niel Kempson" writes:

> In article <840558665snz@dsl.co.uk>,
>     Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <bhk@dsl.co.uk> wrote ...
> 
> > But should you need to make this fix: after all, isn't the spurious NUL
> > (ASCII control characters' names are only two or three letters, not four)
> > unwanted and also likely to confuse other implementations?
> 
> If news is sending out spurious NUL characters then it should indeed be
> fixed.  In the meantime, the workaround that I proposed allows me and
> other NEWNEWS.CMD users to fetch news.  (The workaround actually falls
> into the category of defensive programming and is probably a sensible
> addition anyway.)

I take Niel's point; I too would be deeply upset to be unable to receive
news because of such a simple cock-up.  All the same, whatever's
*generating* the spurious NUL ought to be fixed: I note that there's been
no response from Demon as yet...

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                         bhk@dsl.co.uk
                Tony Blair's New Labour: The Windows'95 of Political Parties
             (c/w Plug'n'Pray and a pretence of offering object-orientation)