Thanks for the info. I am aware of that. However, this is on a dedicated server, and is a file I am executing only from shell. It won't run from a browser, and it's not in a public directory. I'm only using it to parse these 15 files, with each containing 100,000 of his customers information(name, address, subscribe date, subscribed from IP, and phone number only). There are 1,500,000 of them, out of 20,000,000. These are customers that bought something from their company in the last 3 years.

I'm going to delete the file after I'm done with these 15 files. I'll re-upload it when he sends me the rest to upload into the db for him.

Thanks again for the concern :o)

thx,
Richard

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