Mark Goodes wrote:

> I can see how this would work for strings that were less than 255 bytes in
> length.  Would it still work if the string was exactly 255 bytes long?
> Methinks it might be possible to overwrite the length byte of the next string
> in memory, or some such error.
>
> Chris Stasny wrote:
>
> > Pascal to C is easy.
> >
> > t$ = "Fred"
> > poke (@t$+peek(@t$)),0
> > strPtr& = @t$+1
> >

It'll overwirte the memory, but if you DIM the string yourself, you can just add
a few bytes of buffer space after it and you'll be alright. It'll still
overwrite, but as you've added the buffer it won't interfere with anything.
I haven't tried it myself, but it should work, correct me if I'm wrong.

/Lars Gafvert