<<>1. If method #1 ever loses sync-that is, if it ever misinterprets data >as a length-the chance of recovering is tiny, and the chance of >recovering without damaging data somewhere is tiny squared. Well, at the risk of wasting bandwidth (aw, what the heck!): If tiny is greater than 1, then tiny to the second power is greater than tiny (to the first power); that is:>> But "chance", i.e. probability, can't be greater than 1 ;-) Steve