turbo-pascal-assembly

0263 0263 Empty string and Hidden Copyright string

SYS0263:           00

This NULL (00h) byte character at SYS:0263 is a Pascal “empty string”. Pascal strings are byte arrays where the first byte is the length. This empty string is used in the initialization of Input and Output.

SYS0264:              50 6F 72 74-69 6F 6E 73 20 43 6F 70       Portions Cop
SYS0270:  79 72 69 67 68 74 20 28-63 29 20 31 39 38 33 2C   yright (c) 1983,
SYS0280:  39 32 20 42 6F 72 6C 61-6E 64                     92 Borland

The other bytes SYS:0264-0289 that looks like a copyright string is not used and is never visibile.

See also: SYS:0088 Initialize Input, SYS:009C Initialize Output, or Go Back