For megabyte interconversions of bytes and characters, Chr() and Asc() are pathetically slow (literally hours). The only way I see to get a Byte array efficiently converted into a string is to write the Byte array to a disk file and then read the same disk file into a string variable. That works O.K., but is there a way to execute this Byte array ---> string conversion without having to write a file? If not, there sure ought to be.

John Fritch