Novice question about malloc and pointers

[Russell T. Trotter]

I am trying to get an array of strings, therefore I am using the
following declaration:  char *str[MAX] where MAX is an arbitrary 
constant.  My question is how do I allocate the memory for each 
character position? Do all the characters strings for each element
in the array need to be allocated contiguously?  The problem involves
reading in lines of input.  Each line would be stored as a string and 
the number of lines make up the number of elements in the array.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

trotter at enuxha.eas.asu.edu