I'm using firebird 1.5.4 on fedora core 5

from C, using EXEC SQL INSERT (rather than the isc_ calls) I am trying
to get a string of the form below into the database. I've tried
inserting into char & varchar datatypes, character set none, octets.
In all cases the string is terminated at the first ascii(0) character
which must not happen.

I know it can be done via the isc_ calls but I'm trying to write this
without going to that level as all the other code just uses EXEC SQL.

msg[0] = 0x64;
msg[0] = 0x00;
msg[0] = 0x01;
msg[0] = 0x01;
msg[0] = 0x64;
msg[0] = 0x00;