Beth,

you can call aerror() to get more info.

I suspect the file is already open by an earlier run of your code without a call to fclose() in between. A DISPLAY STATUS will show you if you have the file open already.

>Hi, all
> I am working in VFP8.
> I have some code that is suppose to open a plain ascii file in read-only buffered mode (default mode) and find out if the file has something in it.
>

>ctmpfile = ALLTRIM(cConPath + "Service.cfg")
>STORE FOPEN(ALLTRIM(ctmpfile)) TO lnFileHandle
>STORE FSEEK(lnFileHandle,0,2) TO lnEnd
>STORE FSEEK(lnFileHandle,0) TO lnTop
>STORE FSEEK(lnFileHandle,0,1) TO lnCurrent
>

>
>lnFileHandle comes back as 0 (zero) not -1 or 1. If I set code before this to be sure that the file is there, it comes back true. But the lnFileHandle still is set to 0.
>Can anyone help me fix this problem??