Hi Tommy

Although it doesn't solve your question, if you are using VFP6 or VFP7, you could use the FILETOSTR() function to fill sFillData.

>This code is part of a email package that sends out emails automatically to our salesreps - and has worked great in other systems here...
>
>but..
>
>the latest one I released to production just blew up when run for the 1st time (at least that I've been told).
>
>Here is the code..
>
>

>*****************************
>IF pbMailSent
>	*-- Read Log File
>	nFileHandle = FOPEN(sLogFile, 10)
>	nFileEnd = FSEEK(nFileHandle, 0, 2)
>	nFileBeg = FSEEK(nFileHandle, 0)
>	IF nFileEnd > 0
>--->Bad Line--->  sFileData = FREAD(nFileHandle, nFileEnd)
>	ELSE
>		sFileData = ''
>	ENDIF
>	nFileClose = FCLOSE(nFileHandle)
>		
>	DO LogMail WITH sFileData, .T.
> 	*=MESSAGEBOX('Email sent successfully!' , 48, 'RSVP')
>WAIT WINDOW 'Email sent successfully to ' + SUBSTR(psMailTo,2,LEN(psMailTo)-2) NOWAIT
>Else
>	WAIT CLEAR
>  =MESSAGEBOX('Email not sent.  There was an error', 48, 'RSVP')
>ENDIF
>*********************************
>

>
>In the bad line above I get the error message 'Function argument, type, or count is invalid'.
>
>These are the values
>
>nfileHandle = 49
>nfileEnd    = 81500
>
>They are numeric....
>
>so any ideas???
>
>Thanks a heap!
>Tommy

hth,

Frank Camp