Please ignore the last message. Accidentally hit "send".

DO WHILE lcLine<>'!CUST' + chr(9) AND !FEOF(lnHandle)

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*** This sequence will work just fine

* lcLine = ''
* lcChar = ' '
* DO WHILE lcChar<>chr(13) AND !FEOF(lnHandle)
* lcChar = FREAD(lnHandle,1)
* IF lcChar<>chr(13) AND lcChar<>chr(10)
* lcLine = lcLine + lcChar
* ENDIF
* ENDDO

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*** but this crashes when it tries to read the line
*** that starts with "!CUST"+chr(9)

lcLine = FGETS(lnHandle,999)

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= FPUTS(lnHandle2,lcLine)
? lcLine
ENDDO

What's the difference?