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newline character::The character used to mark the end of a line in a text file, or the escape sequence (\n) used to represent this character.

nontasked executable module::A DLL. Unlike an application module, the DLL does not interact with the Windows scheduler via a message loop. Instead it waits for tasks to request its services.

null character::The ASCII character encoded as the value 0, represented as the escape sequence (\0) in a source file. A null character marks the end of a string.

null pointer::A pointer to nothing, expressed as the value 0.