Graham Fawcett wrote: > It's just shifting the burden perhaps, but if you're on a Unix system > you should be able to use tac(1) to reverse your file a bit faster: Huh. Hadn't heard of that one. It's not installed on my OS X box. It's on my FreeBSD account as gtac. Ah, but it is available on a Linux account. Andrew dalke at dalkescientific.com