You could use the MemPtrSize or MemHandleSize function on your record 
(handle or pointer)

Ludovic

In article <93753@palm-dev-forum>, "SL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> i want to transfer data from my pc to my palm-application. Therefore i want 
> to create a database 
> with only one big record, that contains many strings simply packed one after 
> another. After 
> Hotsyncing my application could read the packed strings from the records an 
> work on with them.
> 
> The record will look like this:
> <string> "00" <string> "00" <string> "00" <string> "00" <string> "00" and so 
> on.
> 
> The strings are from variable length.
> May palm application will read the using a pointer that is increased by 
> stringlength after reading ...
> 
> Now my problem:
> 
> How could my application check if the read information was the last packed 
> string or if other 
> packed strings follow. I think if i know the exact record size in bytes it 
> would work, how can i get it 
> ???
> 
> 
> Thanks
> SL
>

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