I've loaded well over 100,000 records (about 100 char in length) via read/lines - probably more like 350,000. The biggest thing to watch out for is that REBOL will use about twice as much memory as the disk file size to store it in a block. - Michael Jelinek -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 8:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] .r to html monthly calendar prelude Re:(3) >REBOL is perfect for storing a wide range of data values, so can be used for >creating databases up to and beyond several thousand records. This is useful Does any one know what the true limit is? I've got a data base of 23,000 records right now, growing at a rate of about 100 entries per week.