>>>What was the behavior? Do you know if it was fixed in 7?
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>>BTW, the thread was fairly recent. (Last week?) You might be able to track
>>it down for more detail.
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>I did. I created a form on my Win2K Server machine, on which I am a local admin, and ran the following code in a Click method:
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WAIT WINDOW TRANSFORM(STRTOFILE(ThisForm.text1.value, "c:\temp\testval"))

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>Every time it ran, I got the MaxLength of the control returned as the number of bytes written -- I didn't get the 0 return you were reporting. Any other ideas on how to duplicate it?

I cannot answer this at the moment. My Win2K and WinME machines are at another location. Should have an answer by the weekend.

Are you sure that the file is being written each time?