>>>>In the USA, the carriage return character is 0x0d. In Canada, it's 0x61. I thought the US (unix) standard EOL was 0x0A ....eh? Does that mean Canadians are Unix based? [WOT] = way off topic Ray Gardiner Technical Director DSP Systems ray@dsp-systems.com private email to:- ray@netspace.net.au http://www.dsp-systems.com