Tim,

Check what font notepad is set to use under Format, Font.

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>I use FWRITE to write a line in a file.. About 2 times out of 100 I get a file that look like this:
>㜲〮⸵〲㐰ㄬ㨱㐲㌺ⰷ䍓ⱟ〢㄰㔵Ⱒ〢〸∴∬〰㘳∸∬㄰〰>
>If I open the text file created in ultraedit it looks ok..like this:
>27.05.2004,11:24:37,SC_,"00155","0804","00368","01000"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"," 0","0"
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>If I open the text file created in foxpro (modify file) it also looks ok..
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>But I I open the file in notepad It looks like this:
>㜲〮⸵〲㐰ㄬ㨱㐲㌺ⰷ䍓ⱟ〢㄰㔵Ⱒ〢〸∴∬〰㘳∸∬㄰〰>
>Does anyone know what this could be?
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