->>  VD>     up the string). A simple (pascalesque) method of reading suc
->> VD>     string would be:
->>
->> Why not use a C string type?  The Pascal type is limited to 255 chara
->> begin with, and secondly, C is more common across the platfroms than
->> is largely limited to MS-DOS.  The only two good compilers are Borlan
->> for DOS (dead for several years) and Virtual Pascal/2 (OS/2, 386DOS).

 JM> Don't kid yourself, Delphi's strings (Object Pascal) are
 JM> unlimited in length (ie: C style strings)

they are limited to 64k... TP/BP 7.0's PChar, Delphi's stuff and C... all
are nul terminated character arrays and their max length is 64k...

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