>>George/Nadya,
>>
>>PMFJI, but ... would something like the following work better than using the low-level file functions?
>>
>>

>>lcString = FileToStr( "Description.TXT" )
>>_CLIPTEXT = STRTRAN( lcString, CHR(10),"" )
>>

>
>Hi Evan,
>
>It doesn't seem to work for me. STRTRAN() doesn't seem to do the job. You only get the last line.

Thanks George. It *seemed* to work when I tried it, but I only used short strings (bg).

Nice thought, though (sigh)