Thanks a lot, but I'm not sure, you can read the whole file with fread(), if the file is huge. AFAIK, fread has limitation in the size, it could read.

>if it is a table, not a cursor, and the table is not too large, you could use the low level functions and read the data in one chunk. the dbf structure is a SDF file with a header that describes the structure of the data. there is a header() function that tells you the size of the header area and a fsize() cunction that gives you the size of the entire file. fsize()-header() = the data area.
>once you know the above you can:
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