BL> How do you kill a VB buf, if you "DIM buf AS STRING * 32000"?
BV> Here's a radical concept....Try the REDIM statement !
BL> I thought of that, but it only works for arrays, not strings. It's
BL> one of the gaps in the VB language. It runs slower if you go *3200
BL> rather than define the string buf = SPACE$(3200). Weird.

So, define the string as an array of bytes.

Regards, Brenton
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