In article <3EBA5031.EDABF9C2@gmx.de>,
 Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:

> No, i think he means if the file contains a '\0' this will result in a
> '\0' :-)
> 
> '\0' indicates the end of a string so this would mess up the whole thing.

Only on null-terminated strings. If you store the length separately, you 
don't need a null terminator and can have any byte value in the string.

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