>> the slowness is mostly because it's
>> searching up to 2700 ztxt resources.
>> if someone could show me how to
>> merge them into one handle to search
>> (and, actually, just the text part of the ztxt resource,
>> not the styl data that is appended to the end of it),
>> that would probably make the search routine go very fast.
>> 

i assume that you have these in more than one file, since a single resource
fork can't handle that many resources.

-STAZ  ~)~