>> Another idea instead of FREAD() it's to create a table or cursor with the
>> structure of each of the fields he finds, and then use Append From SDF.
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>> Luis
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>The only reason I did not recommend this course of action is due to what appears a lack of a record terminator (chr(13)) at the end of each record, and I have never used APPEND FROM ... TYPE SDF under this circumstance.
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>Will it still work?

You were rigtht it wouldn't work, unless one of the binary fields contains a CR or LF, at which point it'd take the next 70 bytes as the next record. Of course, anything but the first record would be unusable.

And, uh, it would also require some decoding of them pesky binaries. Now since QBasic was Borland's, I assume these would be 2-byte short integers and 4-byte IEEE floats, but then who knows, there may be 4-byte integers (signed or not, that is the question), 8-byte floats... not a piece of cake, but quite doable.