i wrote a program that reads the content of a binary file and converts each byte to a string containing its ascii value. and saves these strings to a textfile (separated by newline s) e.g. imagine a file with this content: Hello the program then creates a file with the following content: 72 101 108 108 111 ; my program includes this code: a: "" ; init an empty string readtomem: read/binary %dummy.exe ; read the whole file dummy.exe into memory foreach num readtomem [ a: join a [num newline] ; add the ascii code as string to a, then add a newline to a ] write/append %dummy.txt a; if %dummy.exe has a size of 88.000 Bytes then my script needs more than 100 MB of ram at runtime !!! the problem seems to be the combination of a loop (foreach) and a: join a .... any ideas to replace a: join a ... with a less memory consuming alternative ??? Jean Holzammer
