Hi Gordon! > How can you reliably update a file if there's no > obvious mapping between file position and > character position? If you're updating a text file, the relation is probably about line position, not file position. AFAICS, this would only be a problem if one wanted to insert something between CR and LF <wink>. -- Gustavo Niemeyer [ 2AAC 7928 0FBF 0299 5EB5 60E2 2253 B29A 6664 3A0C ]