>I'm using VFP 5.0 and there is no FILETOSTR command. Is there an equivalent in VFP 5.0?

Here is something that's a UDF that's basicly the same thing

*---------------------------------------------------------------------*
* file2str - takes a file and returns it contents back                *
*---------------------------------------------------------------------*
FUNCTION FILE2STR
PARAMETER pc_file
PRIVATE ln_hndl, ln_size, lc_string
STORE 0 TO ln_hndl, ln_size
lc_string = SPACE(0)

IF TYPE('pc_file') = "C" .AND. FILE(pc_file)
   ln_hndl = FOPEN(pc_file)
   *-- Move to the bottom of the file
   ln_size = FSEEK(ln_hndl, 0, 2)
   *-- Move to the top
   =FSEEK(ln_hndl, 0, 0)
   lc_string = FREAD(ln_hndl, ln_size)
   =FCLOSE(ln_hndl)
ENDIF

RETURN (lc_string)