From: Darin McBride 

On January 19, 2004 2:06 am,
"Roy.J..Tellason!1.270.615.0"{at}filegate.net wrote:
> Pascal Schmidt wrote in a message to Jasen Betts:
>
>  PS> Anyway, if your code depends on it being one way or the other, make
>  PS> it explicit by using "signed char" or "unsigned
char".
>
> I just wish that some folks would _do_ that when they write stuff,  instead
> of it being the default for whatever the case may be.  Like using a
"long"

If you're really storing "char" data in that byte, then use char.
Saying "signed char" or "unsigned char" should only
happen when you're storing numerics in that byte rather than character
data.  Just MSHO.
:-)

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