>

>create cursor Dummy (TxtFld C (250))
>append from TextFile SDF
>nLines = Reccount()
>

Alternatively, there's:

lsMyString = filetostr("foxpro.h")
alines(laMyArray, lsMyString)
?alen(laMyArray)

Beats me which one's faster. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. :-)