array or pointer

[Charles Hannum]

If you knew that you always want to read 500 record of exactly 80 bytes, there
is no reason to dynamically allocate the memory.  It should be statically
allocated.  i.e.:

   char foo[500][80];

Note:  I used the words "byte" and "char" interchangeably here.  This may vary
       depending on the implementation.  Unfortunately, most of the compilers
       I've used don't have a "byte" type.