>>Hi all,
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>>Could someone please tell me the best was to add a blank line to the start of an existing text file. If I open it for Read/Write then do a fputs I seem to loose a character.
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>>Thanks in anticipation
>>Caroline
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>Without too much investigation, if possible, you could try:
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STRTOFILE(CHR(13) + FILETOSTR(cFile), cFile)

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>Or something along those lines.
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>Kev

Thanks Kev that worked perfectly.