Hi Roger! :-)

 BS>> I could limit some of chars hardcoding a value.. But anyway it would be 
 BS>> waste of memory..
 RS>  I disagree.  If you follow the fidonet technical specification the 
 RS> wasted memory would be very minimal.  Those bytes would have been 
 RS> important in the days of 640k DOS memory.  On a modern Linux or 
 RS> Windows system the little bit of unused padding is inconsequential.
There is also the additional benefit of not having to worry about malloc()
failing when there is no more memory left (which can happen on heavily
loaded machines). If you have char arrays with hardcoded size inside a
structure, either you can malloc() the whole thing or you can't. If you can
malloc() the structure and then a malloc() for a char pointer inside that
fails, you have to do more complicated error recovery.

Ciao
Pascal

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