[snip] Did you try using fopen's binary safe read? Something like : [/snip] Shy of being able to do this in the way that I imagined, does anyone know of a class (not requiring PHP 5, as one does on phpclasses.org) that will allow me to specify several PDF and/or other files in a directory to be zipped up so that the archive can be unzipped by the great unwashed at some point? TVMIA -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php