TT> mark lewis wrote in a message to Joe Martin:

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

 TT> I also doubt the others, but I'm *very* sure about C
 TT> strings... they have no such limit at all, except maybe on
 TT> some operating systems in some memory models.

that may be true... it is the limits i've been taught for years since i
first got into programming... i see that you and hector are both using
32bit compilers or are at least compiling to a 32bit target... that may
very well be the difference...

the 64k limit is a very real limit and will remain so until such time as
there are no more 16bit real mode programs being created...

)\/(ark