Eric Thomas <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> Characters are OS-dependent (10873 bytes  don't mean the same under unix,
> NT, VMS and VM) and LISTSERV  accesses files in an OS independent manner.
> It doesn't have easy access to that information.
 
Could the OS-dependent layer collect a character  count at the same time it
collects the line count?
 
Norm
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