Sure,
The =adir(my) returns an array of 5 "columns" with the first being the file name. I've checked and the file is most definately not empty. The fseek() is a desparation move on my part because my fopen() is showing feof() as .t. The value of the second "column" in the array is 4590.

Sandy

I like your suggestion of the alen(my,1) as opposed to the division.