Pascal --> C question

[Andrea Humenick]

In article <4766 at sigi.Colorado.EDU> swarbric at tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick) writes:
>Or does the "packed" thing in Pascal have some special meaning?  I never could
>figure out what the difference between a packed array and a regular array was.

I'm a new poster, so I'm sorry if this is improper.

In my current pascal class my teacher explained packed and not packed as
this

        packed:   an array that can read in '       '
    not packed:   an array that can only be read in character by character

thank you.