Jay

Don't know if this help you at all, but I create a temporary cursor, and then use FGETS to read the file. It breaks on a carriage return so I get each segment of the message into a separate row in the cursor.

CREATE CURSOR cursor1 (resultrow M)

****************************************************************************
* Open HL7 Message (File) and do low level reads for each line of data
* insert each row into a new row in the temp database
****************************************************************************
lnHan=FOPEN(lcFile,0)
DO WHILE !FEOF(lnHan)
	lcString=FGETS(lnHan,2000)
	APPEND BLANK
	replace resultrow WITH lcString
ENDDO
FCLOSE(lnHan)

Kirk