Hi Russell. I think one way to significantly speed up matching FileSpecs with the archived filenames would be to sort both lists first. Angus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell Peters" <russellpeters@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, 16 March 2002 4:37 Subject: [delphizip] Re: Problem when using large FSpecArgs counts > The program didn't freeze, it just took a while with 14228 filespecs and > 14229 files - it 6657 secs (nearly 111 minutes). All measurements were from > calling "Extract" until received number of files - it probably took less > time to extract the files!