-> ->>  VD>     up the string). A simple (pascalesque) method of reading
-> ->> VD>     string would be:
-> ->>
-> ->> Why not use a C string type?  The Pascal type is limited to 255 c
-> ->> begin with, and secondly, C is more common across the platfroms t
-> ->> is largely limited to MS-DOS.  The only two good compilers are Bo
-> ->> for DOS (dead for several years) and Virtual Pascal/2 (OS/2, 386D
->
-> 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...
-> nul terminated character arrays and their max length is 64k...
->
-> )\/(ark
->

FWIW, try looking up "String types" in the Delphi 3 help.  It states
they are limited only by available memory.  Frankly I haven't tried to
allocate them bigger than 64K but it sure sounds like they can be in the
megabytes.

 I'd of pasted it here but I'm in a DOS app writing this.

If you have a chance drop me a note at jmartin{at}viasft.com.  I've read
over your specs and have found several potential trublems with it
that can be easily avoided.  FWIW, I'm the author of the DOS mailer
called ViaMAIL! and am writing a new Windows version as we speak so I
could easily add support for it.

It would take an evening or so but I could write a D2/D3 specific class
for the format, reading, writing etc and would be happy to contribute
it.

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