From: Marc Weber Date: 2012-10-23T05:05:54+09:00 Subject: Re: Looking for suggestions processing and comparing 2 very large files If they are sorted you can split into pieces, eg create an a,b,c file and compare a(old) with a(new) and b(old) with b(new) only. If files are still to big use two chars: aa,ab or the like Marc Weber