As has been (almost) pointed out by at least 3 respondents (word?),

Don't use Query!  Get a real tool, such as SUPRTOOL, and lockword
query.pub.sys.  The only thing I use Query for is FORM SETS, and that's
probably because I haven't discovered its substitute in SUPRTOOL.

Nulls are perfectly valid data.

Tracy Pierce

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Dirickson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 1:09 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Any concerns with storing ASCII - NUL in Image?
>
>
> > Does anyone know of any undesirable side effects of storing
> > the acsii(0)
> > NUL in a field in an Image Dataset?  And for the ?inevitable?
> future,
> > how about any other DB's for that matter?
> >
> > I'm looking to use it or another ascii character as a logical
> > separator
> > in free form text entry, when no space occurs in the text,
> > such as in a URL string.
>
> Alternatively, use an "escape" character to differentiate between
> "regular data" and "special character" usage of something convenient.
> Probably a bit more readable when looking at the data with QUERY, raw
> binary displays, etc.
>
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