VMS Help TCPIP Services, Programming Interfaces, RPC XDR Routines, xdr_string  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    Serializes and deserializes strings (arrays of bytes terminated
    by a NULL character).
    Format
      #include  <tcpip$rpcxdr.h>
      bool_t  xdr_string(XDR *xdrs, char **spp, u_int maxsize);

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