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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
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> Of course, char** might simply be a pointer to a single string, or a 
> char* array.

No.  A char* can be a pointer to a string.  A char** cannot be.

[...]

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