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Spaced-out comments? Who, US??? <Putting arm around Larry's shoulders and grinning widely> BTW, my REMIND program allocates memory on a record-by-record basis. Although this SOUNDS like the same thing, it's really a different issue. As has been pointed out, with downloads you would be grabbing blocks one at a time, seperated by a considerable time period, possibly resulting in significant memory fragging. REMIND, however, pulls in all its records at once upon startup. To cause significant fragging you would have to be running another task which was loading/generating data as quickly as REMIND was loading it in off disk. Nearly impossible to cause any problems, but the discussion of terminal programs DID cause me to analyze the question. "Spaced-out comments" notwithstanding, you are 100% correct: discussions of this sort are terribly useful for opening one's mind to new approaches and non-obvious problems. I'm glad I got to be a part of this one. Rick