>>>>>Thre's no problem if we read to CR but what if there're more than 8192 characters between CRs?
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>>>>there is no more than 8192 characters / line, is LEN() function could help to determine the length returned from FGETS()?
>>>
>>>Sure.
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>>I found that the length of record is variant, you are right it could be > 8192 bytes, It seems that no way to handle this in foxpro right.
>>I tried STRTRAN() through copying file to memo field but got "String is too big to fit" error message.
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>>Should I look to another tool or what ?
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>Message #1053552

Looks very familiar to me:) Actually that's what I meant when saying I'd write a FLL and I have one. However for one time job, I still see fread() approach sufficient and easier for any VFP coder.
Cetin