Ton of "differ in signedness" warnings?

Why is there something like this:

unsigned char *message;

or 
static unsigned char *cause = NULL;

I am guessing these are strings - so why the unsigned?

This thread may help explain:

http://bytes.com/topic/c/answers/61480-why-use-unsigned-char-ever

Malcolm


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