That's odd. It works for me...I just added numeric field (width 5) called 'NUM' to a table, and ran your code and it returned .t.
I'm VFP6, BTW.
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>I can not get that condition to be true.
>I overflowed a field,
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>?FSize("Num") => 5
>REPLACE Num WITH 99999999999
>? Num => *******
>? Num = 1/0 => .F.
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Steve Gibson