So cool you've met him! I believe he also authored SuperDuper on the Mac, another excellent piece of software I've used in the past. And yes, the speed and the

So cool you've met him! I believe he also authored SuperDuper on the Mac, another excellent piece of software I've used in the past. And yes, the speed and the quality of Brief. Especially the fact it didn't try to malloc the whole size of the file, rare nowadays. Opening a 40MB file on my Win98 PC with 8MB of RAM was, essentially, an instantaneous op. Fast forward to last week and one of the IDE's praised elsewhere in this thread, running on my corporate Lenovo with 12GB of RAM, warned me against trying to open an 8MB XML file. Well, at least it warned me, rather than just crashing...