>I did too. I spend 15 min going through the VFP help but could not find it. Then, as soon as I posted the UT message, I thought about the fsize(). I think they call it "information overload" <g>.

One warning about FSIZE(). It's one of the functions that's affected by SET COMPATIBLE. As long as you're sure you never SET COMPATIBLE ON, it's safe, but if there's any chance of that happening, use another approach.

Tamar