Andreas,

> Would it be useful to put this on top of TextFile[1]? It has a framework for
> having various filters and translations applied to read and write text.
> Seems to me that just providing the appropriate filters would solve most of
> the issues involved.

  It would, indeed.  I was thinking of this, but for the 'official'
release, I sort of expected that people wouldn't want to put this
package into the main stream.  (Well, and I didn't want to change my
code too much!)

  I'll take another look,

-- Yoshiki