Fred,

I was having a mental breakdown. The file was not being written with an EOF character. I was opening the file with MODI FILE after it had been created and kept saving the file without thinking and of course this was adding an EOF.

Thank you for your time,

-Mark

>Sorry, I don't have any W98 boxes to test it on. W95 does the same thing as W2K, no EOF marker. How exactly are you writing it out?
>
>This produces no EOF on my machines:
>

>fh = FCREATE("test.xxx")
>nBytes = FWRITE(fh,"Testing")          && writes 7 bytes
>FCLOSE(fh)
>

>
>Looking at the resultant file with a hex editor, I see only the seven characters in "Testing".
>
>
>
>>Fred,
>>
>>I am using Win98.
>>
>>-Mark
>>
>>>
>>>FWRITE() does not put an EOF marker in my file.  Why, do you get one?  What OS are you using.  I'm using W2K and no EOF marker there.