Paul,

I am not familiar at all with C, but I might try to shed some light on your problem:

You get the file handle from the open statement.

n= fopen(cfileName,nModeInfo)
cBuffer= fgets(n,nBufferlength)

I think that n is what you are missing in you construction.

Now stdio sounds awfully like keyboard input to me. I do not think you can
use low level functions here but have you looked at the inkey function?

Marc



>I'm trying to write a program that needs access to STDIO. Here's the C equivalent:
>
>#DEFINE MAX_LINE 4096
>char line [MAX_LINE];
>
>fgets( line, MAX_LINE, stdin );
>
> This is pretty straightforward, but it doesn't look like the VFP version of FGETS has a STDIO operator. I think I'm missing something really stupid...
>
> Here's what I think I'd need to do, if I could figure out how to pass a handle to STDIO in VFP:
>
>cLine = FGETS(STDIO,MAX_LINE)
>
>Ideas?
>
>-Paul