No, FB doesn't complain. There is a length byte, making the number of
bytes 50. Also, even if one dimmed an even number of bytes for a string,
FB is smart enough to automatically pad your string with a junk byte to
make everyone happy.

Thanks again, Andy, you're the king.

Pete wrote:
> 
> > Actually, they are 48 characters in length (for this record only, some other
> > records are different but this is my largest set (16000)).  The DIM 49 is to
> > keep the size down from the default 256.
> 
> Doesn't FB complain about the odd number size of the strings ??
> 
> Pete...
> 
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