Report used in the followng code is available at
www.eetasoft.ee/reporttoascii.zip
This is very simple report containing only three fields
having plenty of empty space.

To reproduce, run the following program:

CREATE TABLE test ( f1 c(1), F2 C(1), F3 C(1) )
APPEND BLANK

FOR i=1 TO 20
  COPY TO t
  APPEND FROM t
  ENDFOR

REPLACE ALL f1 WITH TRANSFORM(RECNO()%10), ;
     f2 WITH TRANSFORM((RECNO()+1)%10), ;
   f3 WITH TRANSFORM( (RECNO()+2)%10)

REPORT FORM test TO FILE test ASCII
CREATE TABLE test1 ( f1 c(10) )
APPEND FROM test.txt SDF FOR !EMPTY(F1)

MESSAGEBOX( 'Expected '+TRANSFORM(3*RECCOUNT('test')) + CHR(13)+ ;
   'Actual ' +TRANSFORM(RECCOUNT('test1')) )

Observed result:

Expected: 3145728
Actual: 2752428


Expected result:

numbers in message box must be same.


Is it possible to fix this problem so that data loss does not occur ?