Andrés Robinet wrote: > How about something like this? (Needs debugging and testing, but... > just a hint after all) > > <?php > > ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); > > while ($someString = getTheNextPartOfTheLargeFile()) { > echo $someString; > ob_flush(); > } > > ?> I like it from a coding point of view (it's neat and elegant), but I don't think it achieves anything else than my initial suggestion of using exec(gzip -c). /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php