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 -- All that we see or seem / is nothing but a dream within a dream [E.A. Poe]