At 01:06 PM 9/20/2001 -0700, Robert Spier wrote: >Dan, > > Could you explain again why you don't want char* anywhere, and prefer > void*? Because for character data we're not sure char * is right. (Might be wchar_t, __int16, __int32, or something else) It's also to shake off the "Oh, it's character data! I can use the <string.h> functions!" reaction. Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk