Alan B. Pearce wrote:
>>I use Pascal's string encoding method by making the first
>>byte be the length of the string.
> 
> ...
> 
>> const char *Messages[] = {m1,m2,m3,m4};
>>
>>(It's a little harder to get C to automatically figure out
>>the length of a string and encode it in the Pascal style.)
> 
> 
> I done something similar, but used C style strings with a null byte at the
> end, then scanned the string until I reached the null.

That works too as long as you know your strings don't have intentional 
0's. In my case, this same routine sends arbitrary binary data.

Scott

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