It's not my code, I borrowed it somewhere a long time ago, and have only made a few small changes. About the size, I really don't know.

>Tore,
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>Great code! In looking at your long example, is there a way to retrieve a file's length before reading it in blocks? If one knew the length of the file being retrieved, they could add a progress meter to the long version of your code.
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>Thank you,
>Malcolm