>I am experiencing an intermittant problem creating or opening text files. FOPEN and FCREATE both will occationally return an empty string rather than a numeric file handle. If I exit VFP and restart it works fine. I am running VFP7 SP1 on Win2k Pro Build 5 SP4. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.


Jeff,

Just finished reading your answer to Cetin.

It is most likely imo that you have a currently selected table/cursor with a field name that is the same as your variable

this is consistent with the behaviour of gets() && fputs() you described

&& 6sp5
?fgets('  ', 20) && returns empty string, no error
?fputs('  ', 'ppp') && no error