Passing text/strings as a byte ptr?

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SculptureOfSoul
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Oh, and does anyone know why I can pass a string in to a function expecting a byte pointer, and it works - yet Bmax does not automatically convert a String to a byte pointer anywhere else...i.e.
str:string
bptr:byte ptr
bptr = string


returns the error "Unable to convert string to byte pointer."