to pass an array of bytes to string (but I want 8bits, and not to use unicode)

the function that I thought to use is StrConv, but it seems that the only option is to convert to unicode.

StrConv(buffer(), vbUnicode), and I don't want the overhead and oversize converting it to unicode, because I will do socket.senddata (for UDP protocol).

any idea to avoid the use of a LOOP plus CHRB$(buffer(x)) ???