>Suits me - now when I don't actually need it and have spent an hour trying to figure out the screwup this created :). I hope we may save some of someone else's time on this.

Most definetly. That's the whole purpose of the file. In fact, the lack of a mention of this, to me, would undercut the usefullness. An update by Monday then it is!

>Actually, I don't know if I should be worried at all - it seems to strip only the last character from memo fields created from a text file (tab delimited) exported from something that seems like Access (uses .mdbs for sure), and it doesn't seem to go beyond 256, so I'm losing just the last byte sometimes. Still, I wouldn't like to have to worry about this in case I needed longer chunks.

Might be enough to add the cumulative string lengths plus delimiters together as a check. It'd probably be better to locate any string of 255 characters within the source (using AT() I suppose), then check the next character to see if it's a delimiter or not.