In a recent note, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" said:

> Date:         Wed, 6 Sep 2006 11:58:31 -0300
> 
> [2] On some devices you need to add the stray NUL to avoid timing
>     problems.
> 
Which ought to be the responsibility of the device driver and not
of the application program.  Likewise the NUL should not be kept
in data files.

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