From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Writing a struct to disk
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 16:04:07 -0700
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Alexander Bokovoy wrote:

> You can use the technique which used in PASCAL: . . .

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Pascal traditionally uses one 8-bit byte
for the string length, limiting the total number of characters in a
string to 255.

I know the Macintosh toolbox has some facilities to allowed "wide
strings," or ones where the length is two bytes (up to 65 535 characters
in the string), but I wasn't aware there was any standard Pascal feature
to allow this.

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