Subj : Win Version was: Bug report To : Benny Pedersen From : mark lewis Date : Sun Mar 25 2012 11:12 pm ml> why space padding? the strings are null terminated... no padding ml> needed... BP> how can i know ? are you not a "hacker" in the old school sense of the phrase? simple look at the existing and you will see one of two basic formats and possibly one that incorporates both... the most obvious format is the null terminated which doesn't care about string length other than seeking to the first nul character in the field... that C style... pascal style carries a string length byte at the beginning of the string chatacter array ;) )\ /(ark * Origin: (1:3634/12) .