>I have a relatively large text file (3-4 GB) which VFP, when I display information about it with DIR, reports as being of negative 2 GB (yeah -2.3 GB). This wouldn't be in itself tragic but feof() and fseek confirm that the file is empty. fget() still works. I did a work around using
>lcLine =fget(lnHandle)
>do while !empty(lcLine)
>...
>etc but my workaround doesn't work - probably there is an empty line (just a carriage return) in the text file. Anyone have any ideas?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>To Workaround your Workaround... (Yeurggh) you could try getting a few lines at a time and test them all for empty.
>lcLine1 = fGets(lnHandle)
>lcLine2 = fGets(lnHandle)
>lcLine3 = fGets(lnHandle)
>do while Not Empty(lcLine1 + lcline2 + lcline3)
>
>I haven't tested this so I don't know what the subsequent fGets will do when you really are at feof()
>
>Will

Thanks for the suggestion. When you fgets() at feof() you get an empty string which is ok. So I'm replacing the fgets in my program with

func myfgets
lpara tnHandle
local lcReturn
for m.i = 1 to 1000
lcReturn = fgets(tnHandle,8000) && long lines
if !empty(lcReturn)
exit
endif
endfor
return lcReturn
endf

The drag is the process takes a night to run and is sitting on a computer in DC so everything is slow as molasses. I'm also writing tools to try to figure out why the workaround dropped...oh well...