>Hi,
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>I appreciate that this may not be a pure VFP question.
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>I would like to be able to combine 2 files (specifically a PCL font in the same way that you used be able to in DOS with COPY filea + fileb filec. Is there a simple way of doing this maybe with the WINAPI.
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>I am reluctant to use FOPEN(), FREAD(), FWRITE etc as some of these files are in excess of 250K, which would mean having to read in and write out 64K or less chunks at a time ( am I right in thinking that this is the max size for a variable in VFP). I'd prefer not to do it this way if there is a simpler way
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>Thanks
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>Simon Horne
Simon,

The FREAD(), FWRITE buffer size is limited to 64Kb but string size limit is 16Mb. You can use Filetostr and Strtofile to combine files

=Strtofile( Filetostr("File1.txt") + Filetostr("File2.txt"), "File3.txt")