Since all VFP says is that FOPEN() will return -1 if the file is not opened, and the examples show that the error check looks for a Handle of < 0, are you sure that your result of 0 is a problem?

Are you actually getting a problem that leads you to believe the file is not open?

Alan

>ctmpfile returns the full path to the 'Service.cfg' file.
>
>>What does ctmpfile return?
>>
>>This works for me:
>>

>>clear
>>cConPath = sys(2003)+'\'
>>ctmpfile = ALLTRIM(cConPath + "Service.cfg")
>>?ctmpfile
>>lnfileHandle=FOPEN(ctmpfile)
>>?lnfilehandle
>>lnEnd=FSEEK(lnFileHandle,0,2)
>>? lnend
>>IF lnfileHandle > 0
>>	=FCLOSE(lnfileHandle)
>>ENDIF
>>

>>
>>>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??
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Beth