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Fred – The best way to do that would be to find a disk/file editor (like Zap or something) that will let you write a portion of the file, beginning with an offset and going for a certain length. You could then load the file into memory and tell the program to write the file from offset $80 to EOF to a different file name. That should solve the problem. Another possible but trickier solution is to find a text editor (not a WP) that will allow reading a file with control (non-ASCII) characters. VERY CAREFULLY delete the characters up to but not including the "GIF87a" string. When the last character is deleted, save the file (preferably to a different name in case something goes wrong) without adding/deleting/changing any other bytes. Make sure the etxt editor doesn't do any kind of translation (like removing $0A bytes (line feeds) that follow $0D bytes (returns), or using $1A (control-Z) as end if file). I know of at least one text editor on the MSDOS machines that will do this, but I don't have any information on Amiga text editors in situations like this. Hope some of this helps. Harry