> Finally, let me know if I have got this right: - Cstrings 
> have the length of the string at the beginning of the file 
> and have no special termination char, Pascal strings have no 
> length specifier, but terminate with a null char.

Just the opposite, actually. C strings are null-terminated, while Pascal
strings have the length at the beginning. Pascal used to use a single
byte, which limited strings to 256 characters. I abandoned Pascal for C
in 1990, so I haven't kept up, but I would guess modern Pascal allows a
longer string.

Cordially,

Kerry Thompson

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