>Take a look at the SP4 update notes for VFP. How many people have legacy VFP code out there, before the FileToStr function came along, that _knows_ it's going to reading an entire textblob file of some arbitrary length less than 32K characters and is simply coded as:
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>cMyStr=FGets(hFile,32767)
>... Basically the equivalent functionality of FileToStr before it came along.
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>That apparently will now be broken. From the SP4 info:
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>FGETS function update
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>A minor behavior change was necessary for the FGETS() function related to Knowledge Base article.
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>The optional nBytes parameter now has a maximum value of 8192. By definition, FGETS() only returns bytes up to a carriage return if one is encountered before the parameter value is reached.

That behavior regarding the maxlength of FGETS() actually changed back in SP3, but finally made it to the docs here.