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If you only have one large string that you are trying to conserve space on then the packed approach will not work. Since packed strings can not be manipulated as a whole like unpacked strings can you must first unpack them into a normal unpacked string buffer. In your case this would require you to declare a packed MOTD buffer of 2500 new szMOTD[2500 char] and then a buffer to unpack it new szUnpackBuffer[2500] which is obviously only going to create waste instead of reduce it. See the revised section above titled But exactly how much memory does using a packed string save me?