> 'this is very speedy and I adapted it
 > 'from Ethan Winers Basic Techniques and Utilities
This looks pretty clever to me.  I wonder, though, if it would be faster if 
you substituted BUFFER$="" for Buffer$ = SPACE$(BufSize).  Or perhaps it 
would be slower to do it that way because the size of the string would have 
to be modified....
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