Yes. Before when I did it, it worked on W98 and crashed on W2K. It did work on my W2K laptop, just not the desktop. I just tried it on XP and it worked just fine with a 25MB file.


>Did yo do any processing on the result string?
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>>I've read files much larger than 16MB into a character variable. But it was pretty slow with all the disk thrashing going on.