> I need to import data from a binary file (*.PDB) > into a VFP DBF. FOPEN() returns a -1 which is > an error so I cannot do it this way. Any ideas? FOPEN has never seen a file it doesn't like. <g> I've been able to open every file you can imagine with FOPEN. Perhaps you really have a small syntax type problem. What is the exact line of code that gives returns a -1 to you? ==Carl