py-configparser returning (vector character) but not string

Hi everybody, I'm using py-configparser in one of my projects. After quite some debugging I found out that it returns (VECTOR CHARACTER <length>) instead of plain strings; and in some cases this makes a difference, for example SB-BSD-SOCKETS:GET-HOST-BY-NAME throws an CASE-FAILURE. Perhaps the results should become SIMPLE-STRINGS -- although I'm not sure how widespread such problems/ checks are. Regards, Phil