>>>I'll give you one incentive - it might make it onto one of the new certification exams!
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>>Might? Uh-huh..... :-D
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>>Well, I *know* how to use it, it's just hard to break old habits....
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>That's the important thing, to know that it exists, and what it does, and most importantly, when it might be appropriate. I think that everybody who wrote questions out at DevCon that MS is far more interested in knowing how to apply stuff in a situation than it is to be able to parrot back the syntax. You're probably in good shape there...

Hey guys (Ed, John, Jeff, et al):

Why not use the _TEXT system variable to set a low level file handle and use TEXT...ENTEXT or \ or \\ as needed?