Tony Pelton wrote:
not to stick my nose in, but what convention makes this a "usually" ?

i'm not a 'C' programmer by any stretch, but i don't _think_ functions
that have a return type of "char*" are that unusual are they ?

No. ImageMagick, a c library, makes extensive use of functions returning PChars.

in an MD5, i don't think you are going to know how long the returned
string would be right ?

It is the absolute oposite. MD5 Hashes always have the same size. This can help a little.

Felipe

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