>That would make sense. For my own use, I wanted to find a reason to use STRTOFILE() (hadn't used it yet for anything, wanted to play).
John,

Actually, it's probably faster (which is a good enough reason< g >) than lower level file I/O. However, I had some code from VFP 5.0 which didn't have the command, that was perfect for this type of thing, so rather than re-invent the wheel, I used something that I knew worked.:-)