DD> You should have declared your files untyped, and used blockread
 DD> and blockwrite to access them - this one byte at a time stuff
 DD> is for serial ports (and therefore at serial port speeds) 

  Yair, thanks... I discovered that. It's so hellish fast with
blockread() that I can't measure it (probably as fast as C). 

 DD> Your identifiers are not very meaningful (self documenting).

  They are to me. I always use inp and oup for input and output
files, and any dickhead knows i is an integer.

  IMO, identifiers that say things like: ThereIsA_FairLandFarAway give
me the shits, and besides, I can never type the same thing twice. Even
inp and oup give me trouble  :-)

Regards,
Bob
 
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