I had the reverse reaction--maybe the 20/256K limits were too generous. However, I finally accepted Eric's values as reasonable. I will have one change to LSV$GETQ, though; I'll allow the first file of the day to exceed the 256K limit. I have a few software files that legitimately exceed 256K with no good way to divide them. Otherwise, I agree with Eric's comments, point for point. Regards, JSFisher