FA> I just looked it up, you're right it's non ANSI, but then how do i allocate 
FA> more than 64Ks at a time portably ? I think new isn't ANSI either, not to 

You can't.  In fact, the ISO (BTW the ANSI standard was superceded
by the ISO standard about 3-4 years ago) standard says that a
strictly conforming program can only expect one data object of
32767 to be allocated, so expecting more than 65535 is way out
of line.  BFN.  Paul.
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