I just realized you don't need to have a limit for your files. So:

lnFileHandle = fopen( lcFileName)
lnFileSize = fseek( lnFileHandle, 0, 2)
fseek( lnFileHandle, 0)
lcText = fread( lnFileHandle, lnFileSize)
lnLines = occurs( chr(13), lcText)

This is VERY fast even with big files. Please note that you can use lcText to append to your dbf (using mline() function).

Vlad

>>I asked how big it "can" be, not "is". I mean: 10 bytes, 1000 bytes, 100000 bytes,...?
>
>Same answer, it can be 100 bytes and up until 1000000 bytes.