Hi Howard,

I know I COULD run a Perl script to do it much faster but I don't have any Perl skills and it would be much harder for me to customise later. At this stage I think that it would be better to stick with the slow solution and schedule it to run overnight.

Thanks very much for the offer though.

Perhaps Ruud will come up with a solution to the problem of reading/writing of byte arrays using Kix... I have come across it a couple of times now (also had problems reading SIDs directly).

Thanks to everyone for the help.

Michael.