I'm sorry, but I killed FPD2.6 sometimes during the last millenium! <vbg> Anyway, my guess is that this is a timing issue, I suggest that you add a inkey(1,'HM') line after the fclose() line.

>That's not really helpful, Tore.
>
>1. I've never used it
>2. Help says that it "Provides evaluation of a character expression." which to my mind does not mean "write to a low-level file"
>3. in FPD26 there is no Textmerge but there is Set Textmerge. Again, I've never used this. Pieces of text need to be delimited with / an // and I don't know that there is any advantage in this.
>4. This still hasn't told me why the existing code doesn't work.
>5. This system is being used at many clients and I'm loathe to create another version that will be different (then maybe I have to send it out all over again, by post, on floppies).
>
>
>I've run it in native VFP mode, and in debug, and I've run the .exe on my m/c here and the output works in all cases.
>>Why don't you use textmerge?
>>
>>>I have to maintain a 2.6 system. In the past it has been printing the results of a run to the printer. Recently many clients have got USB printer connections and the old system, of course, can't recognise one. Rather than altering each clien's computer set-up it was decided to print the report to a text file, which can be printed off at leisure.
>>>
>>>Trouble is, one (new) client says that the text file is created but that it's empty of any details. Now the file is written to, emulating the old version (where ? and ?? were used) thus:
>>>
>>>

>>>If llTextFileOK
>>>    = FPUTS( lnFileHdl, "Summary of application :"+alltrim(xdesc)+", included in file")
>>>    = FPUTS( lnFileHdl, thisziph+" downloaded on "+dtoc(date()))
>>>    ...
>>>    = FPUTS( lnFileHdl, "")												
>>>    = FPUTS( lnFileHdl, "********************************************")
>>>    = FPUTS( lnFileHdl, "* The above application contains :         *")
>>>    = FPUTS( lnFileHdl, "* Passenger records :"+str(tnumber,10,0) + "  :         *")
>>>    = FPUTS( lnFileHdl, "* Total fare  :"+str(tfare,10,0)+" pence            *")
>>>    ... etc
>>>EndIf 	&& llTextFileOK	
>>>

>>>
>>>Now in the past I've had to put delays into certain FP code because the computer was running too fast for the old code and was skipping certain commands, but I can't remember whether that was FPD26 code or VFP3. I haven't visited the client but I expect he has a fast new puter, as it has no floopy drive. Could this be a reason the FPUTS commands are not writing to the file, and that putting in wee delays will sort it?
>>>
>>>I need to get this right as it's a new client who's not been impressed at the failure of the system to report his output and I can't afford to send him a new system that equally doesn't work.
>>>
>>>'ppreciate it ASAP if you can :-)
>>>
>>>Terry