newer pascal strings are #0 terminated, original pascal strings were 255 chars max with string[0] being the string length, they were also not Unicode friendly,

newer pascal strings are #0 terminated, original pascal strings were 255 chars max with string[0] being the string length, they were also not Unicode friendly, newer pascal compilers still support this as the shortstring type. I use pascal style strings in my embedded C library I wrote in 1989 much more efficient on 8/16-bit systems