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I figured Fletch would come through. :)

> 
> $ perl -le 'print "a" x 2048, "b" x 512, "\xff" x 16, "b" x 512' > foo
> $ perl -lne 'BEGIN{$/=\1024} print "hit byte ", ($.-1) * 1024 + $-[0] if /\xff{16}/' foo
> hit byte 2560
> $ perl -le 'print "a" x 2048, "b" x 1512, "\xff" x 16, "b" x 512' > foo
> $ perl -lne 'BEGIN{$/=\1024} print "hit byte ", ($.-1) * 1024 + $-[0] if /\xff{16}/' foo
> hit byte 3560
> 
> 


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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