PE> The operations thus come down to skipping 50 bytes, doing a
 PE> string compare, and doing a search for NUL. On an 80x86 machine
 PE> these all come down to just a couple of operations each. BFN.
 PE> Paul.

Hi Paul,
         thanks for that. I'll give it a go and see how much slower
it is. I hadn't thought of skipping the fixed headers (Bob's a
dickhead). The first time I read it one message at a time, I had to
wade through the 02 00's in your net number, and it got pretty 
complicated.

Regards,
Bob
 
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