To: Laurent_R,

Thanks for the information I was not aware that goto is bad coding.

I removed it and followed your example.

P.S.: The MAXBYTES = 5 is just for fast implementation purposes.

P.S.2 About the $| = 1; I thought that it would be good to flush the buffer also at the output. Maybe I was just over doing it.

Again thank you for your time and effort.