IIlength(s)
char *s;
/*
** determines the length of a string.
** if a null byte cannot be found after 255 chars
** the the length is assumed to be 255.
*/
{
register char *ss;
register int len, cnt;
ss = s;
cnt = 255;
len = 0;
while (cnt--)
if (*ss++)
len++;
else
break;
return (len);
}