BL> Would it therefore be quicker if I used two separate buffers,
 BL> one for PKT and the other for QWK? I could write the QWK buffer
 BL> sequentially, just moving pointers in the buffers and copying
 BL> across.

 FM> That's exactly what you should be doing.

  I'm a bit disappointed. My qwk2pkt is no faster than the VB version,
both equivalently reading one message at a time! My average message
takes 5mS.

Regards,
Bob
 
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