BL> Yair... it's not a good compromise and it's no faster anyway. What
BL> I really wanted to do was write a string array in C. In Pascal, I can
BL> declare the array upfront as:

BL> names:    array[0..128] of string[12];

char names[129][13]; ???

BL> Which reminds me... I forgot to limit the names array. Pacal does it
BL> for you with a range check; in C it just overflows. Bum!

C substitutes protection and slowness for a noose and speed.

Anyway, like I said, I'm using the "original".  BFN.  Paul. 
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