KD> Each of those lines can be re-written as a 'string', in that case
 KD> use char array[5][6] = {                                               
 KD>         "x#xxx",                                         
             
 KD>         "x###x",                                         
             
 KD>         "xxx#x",                                         
             
 KD>         "xo##x",                                         
             
 KD>         "xxxxx"};                                        
             
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 JB> You can use a 5x5 array here too, you'll just lose the terminating
 JB> NULs. 
 JB> char a[5][5]={"x#xxx","x###x"... etc.

   Yeah, you'll lose them all except the last one.  I think I read 
   somewhere (probably in a message on this echo) that the standard 
   requires that you can write to memory one byte past the end of a 
   string without problems, but it's still not a good practice to get 
   into, in my opinion.
   
... DOS never says "GOOD command or filename"...
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