I have not used Alzip. I was running WinZip but uncompressed the files with Win8 and viewed in NotePad v6.3. One could split and check ubound to see which is greater I guess and use that one. In the end though, it would be easier if M knew what his file format was and then use the code accordingly.

The translation is not uncommon. Back when I dealt with Unix files in the 80's and 90's, vbLF was used but vbCrLf was used in DOS. I ran some programs to convert back and forth.