What I see happen when you have control characters in Globals is that when you try to display the global, it reeks havoc with your screen.
I have seen M applications written specifically with control characters in the globals to be executed later. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of K.S. Bhaskar Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 2:39 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: Is $$GTF~%ZISH() binary friendly? On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 14:19 -0500, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: [KSB] <...snip...> > I'll check with Bhaskar whether or not there is any risk in storing > non-printable characters in a global. I did some testing and filled > a > global with $char(0) and it didn't seem to loose them, or cause the > underlying string to terminate (i.e. null-terminated strings). [KSB] With GT.M, the subscripts as well as the values stored in an M node can be any arbitrary binary sequence of bytes. -- Bhaskar ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members