BL> suggest, at least as a test, arbitrarily adding 80 bytes or so to the
BL> buffer over and above the amount your routine says it needs.  Oh heck,
 
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Thanks to you and Rich for responding.  It now works!!!
 
:-)
 
(Actually I only tried it on one file so far, but that file always
crashed before...)
  
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