>>>>What was the behavior? Do you know if it was fixed in 7?
>>>
>>>BTW, the thread was fairly recent. (Last week?) You might be able to track
>>>it down for more detail.
>>
>>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:
>>
>>
WAIT WINDOW TRANSFORM(STRTOFILE(ThisForm.text1.value, "c:\temp\testval"))
>>
>>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?
Yep.