>Sergey:
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>Sorry for being so dense on this, but what is the function
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>Filetostr(Myfile)
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>That's not part of VFP 5.0.. is it in a later version?
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Hi Paul,

No problem. I think Filetostr()/Strtofile()functions where added in VFP 6. I find them very usefull. The Filetostr() function reads whole file into a string. You'll have to use a bunch of VFP low-level file functions to get the same result.