Kai Mosebach <kai at freshx.de> writes: > i lessed a 1.0 gig file filled with zeros and less seems to slurp in > as much as it can get at one time! AFAIK, it tries to read one entire line; since your file doesn't contain any line feed characters, it ends up reading the entire file. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no