>Has anyone found this problem with FGETS (and possibly a work-around). To get FGETS to read more than 254 characters, you have to supply a second parameter of the number of bytes to use. If I set it to 257 or greater I get a Foxpro exception error C0000005. Any help would be much appreciated.

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Andrew,
It has been partially corrected in VFP6 SP3 and now works up to 8192 chars. My workaround was to write my own fgets() :

function safegetline
lparameters handle
if type('handle')#'N' or handle<0
 return .f.
endif
lnCurPos = fseek(handle,0,1) && Save current pos
lcPortion = fread(handle,65536) && read in 64K blocks
lnNLPos = at(chr(13)+chr(10),lcPortion) && NL position
do while lnNLPos = 0 and !feof(handle)
  lcPortion = lcPortion + fread(handle,65536)
  lnNLPos = at(chr(13)+chr(10),lcPortion) && NL position
enddo
if lnNLPos>0  && If NL chars encountered
  retline = left(lcPortion, lnNLPos-1)
  =fseek(handle,lnCurPos+lnNLPos+1,0) && Set position to just after NL
else
  retline = lcPortion
endif
return retline

Cetin