FC> > 'this is very speedy and I adapted it
FC> > 'from Ethan Winers Basic Techniques and Utilities
FC>This looks pretty clever to me.  I wonder, though, if it would be faster 
f
FC>you substituted BUFFER$="" for Buffer$ = SPACE$(BufSize).  Or perhaps it 
wou
FC>be slower to do it that way because the size of the string would have to 
e
FC>modified....
I'm pretty sure that it needs Buffer$ = SPACE$(BufSize).  That determines how 
big of a chunk of the file it reads at a time.  Actually when I look at what 
I ended up with there is very little simularity to what I took out of the 
book.  The book was showing how to copy a file in this fashion. That is why I 
wasn't too sure if I was over reading with the last Buffer$ read, but what 
happens I think is that when the function I made hits the eof it stops 
reading and the rest of the buffer$ is space which doesn't interfere with 
tallying carriage returns.  But this would be a problem copying files because 
the extra spaces would get tacked onto the file.
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