Emmanuel: Shane has already corrected me on how absurd my thinking was in considering 127k to be a large file. R, John A.M. Darnell Software Development In honor of THE MATRIX RELOADED: In the first movie, close to the climax, Keanu Reeves and Carrie Ann Moss take a harrowing express ride up an elevator by explosively disconnecting the counterweight. Just before activating the detonator, Reeves says something. What was it that he said? Emmanuel <[log in to unmask]> Sent by: Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]> 05/22/2003 02:46 AM Please respond to Macintosh Scripting Systems To: [log in to unmask] cc: Subject: Re: Where goes the "$"? At 5:35 PM -0500 21/05/03, John A.M. Darnell wrote: >Bill: > > After some agonizing testing I figured out that what happens is that >even though the documentation says that a READ...BEFORE command does not >read in the delimiter, the fact seems to be that it does, and then >discards it (i.e. does not provide it to the program). > > Unfortunately the file is potentially huge (the biggest one on record >is 127k) so I have to take the data a chunk at a time. Do you mean 127 GB? Emmanuel