news
ACTION: allocates a bstring of null characters given the length in bytes
USE: bstring=news length
EXAMPLE:
b=news 1000
'...
frees b

RESULT:
b contains address of a string of 1000 nul characters . Then the sting is freed

REMARKS: Oxygen strings are automatically freed but Bstrings must be explicitly freed when no longer needed.

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