Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, > > I am to be given a 13MB ascii file by a NSW department. Good luck - I've never met a Government department that knows what an ASCII file is (with appologies to any government IT staff on the list !!). If you can get a "computer literate" person there to ZIP the file and email it to you, you'll probably have more luck... Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug