>Is there a way to make FGETS go backwards? I created my own function call FBACKS which uses FREAD with a negitive 1 until I hit a chr(13) or chr(10) but wanted to know if there is a better way. I basicly want to read from the file bottom to top NOT top to bottom as most low level files assumes.

You could use the FILETOSTR() function to get your entire file to a string, (FGETS has a 8K limitation) and use RAT() to read backwards perhaps?