>W/o opening the table? No way as I said before if you mean including lowlevel opens (or don't know headersize,recsize beforehand). If you're allowed to open lowlevel reccount is stored in byte offsets 4-7 and is reliable as reccount() - it reads you from there.
>If you know header(),recsize() beforehand:
>nRecs = (FileSize-headersize)/recsize
>
>PS: nRecs = (FileSize-headersize)/recsize
>is more reliable than reccount()
>Cetin

I do not know recsize and header so I would have to go low-level. Thanks again.