Mo,

Each record begins with a single byte that determines whether or not the record is deleted. Therefore, the record length is always the sum of the fields plus one.

>Hello
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>WHY (using vfp6) the total record length is teh actual length +1.
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>If we have 2 column each 10 characters long the total count will be 21. Where's this extra one come from??
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>Thanks