Suggestion Richard ..

 RW> Can anybody possibly tell me the ascii code of the 
 RW> high ascii characters found in this file? Once I find 
 RW> those magic numbers I can do some things in a batch to 
 RW> remove them and make direct use of it in a couple 
 RW> other applications.

If you have any access to the old utility LIST.COM for DOS from 1996,you
simply 'LIST' the file.  In it you can see each character over on the left
side of the page.  On the right side of the screen is the ASCI character
for every character in the file.  The utility ought to be available on most
of the old MS-DOS archives.  My executable is:

   10-31-96   3:48a     24681           0  LIST.COM


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike {at} 1:117/3001

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