Actually, all I've tried so far is to create a pointer to a single 3D array, and that won't work.<BR><BR>I don't have the code available to me now, which I know is dumb for asking this kind of ...

Voila. We now have a structure with an extra length bytes on the end.You can access body as if it were the length-byte array body [ length]. If length were, say, 16, then body would be 16 bytes in ...