From: "bcorrigan78@..." Date: 2006-03-17T23:23:48+09:00 Subject: Re: Delayed File I/O & ZLIB - Any help would be appreciated hey Jeffrey, Thanks for the reply. I realized the ZIP thing from another poster. I guess I thought that they were equivalent, but either way, GZ is fine. Also, the line that: read gz << File.open(tempfile).read was replaced by read gz << File.read(tempfile) My output at this point is: "" nil Best, Brian