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...e, it can't be kept in the 64k buffer. As you scroll through the document, word tries to read in only the blocks of current text it needs. Unfortunately this leads to a situation where by a page-scroll within word can result in 50 256byte reads. If this is accross a network, that leads to a noticble delay. This is of relevence for samba users because Word often opens a document more than once (it has to do with the internal OLE object directory), which causes the samba server to revoke the oplock on the file. That means all those little IO's go accross the network. NT/2000 servers have...