>>In order to communicate with Sterling Commerce EDI products I need to create a flat file that contains multiple record types. In COBOL I did this with a master record then an infinite number of REDEFINEs for that record for each record type. How does one do this in VFP?
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>>Regards/yb
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>You need to write things out to an ASCII file. Look at the low level file functions (FCREATE, FWRITE, etc.)

Thanks for the prompt response.

I could create multiple cursors for the record types, but neither fwrite or fputs take the cursor as an arguement:

For Example

create cursor rectyp1 (field1 c(10), field2 n(2,1)...)
...

nfid=fcreate("temp.tmp")

=fputs(nfid,rectyp1)

...


Any ideas?

regards/yb