Folks,

VFP6 has two new functions FileToStr() adn StrToFile(). The first, FileToStr() reads a file passed and srgument into a memory variable.

lcString = FileToStr("MyFile.txt")

The second reads a string variable and writes it to a file;

lcString = RELICATE("Z",1000)
StrToFile(lcString,"MyFile.TXT", .F.)

the third argument is T or F as to whether the string should be added to exiting contents of the file.