Thanks Matt, DaveC but I'll pass on using the Filter command and just go back to the read/write format until I can work it thru.
I don't know enough about the filter command to trust any code that is listed with professional comments like, here mr. lazy. That reminds me very much of some jack that posted to another user having ram problems dumping his kernal32.exe stack to Delete his kernal32 file.
I just haven't used the filter command enough to spot intentional bad code and not. Obviously after following and trying the first suggested alias which generated 20 crap files filled with nothing but line numbers, I'll study up on the Filter command and in the meanwhile work it out with the $read/$write commands.
Thanks anyway,
MDA
