>George,
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>4000 files per hour was what it was doing. I don't know that redeclaration is an impact at all. I'm most suspicious of the converter exe that he's using is leaking like a sieve. *s*

Me too. It was just a thought, a WAG, shot in the dark. I thought you might know more than I about the overhead, if any, of redeclaring API calls. I've always felt that if there was any, it was insignificant.