Dragan,

>The GFH stands for Georg Friedrich, of course :)

*g*

>surely have to do that). For my needs, what Dore Svei suggested is exactly what I need. Btw, what's the lowest file handle number to start with? In FPD I seem to remember it always began with 10 or 11, lower numbers being reserved for various low-level things (like printer, .tmp file handles etc) and were a strict no-no to touch. What's the lower limit now.

>A more important thing: are we sure that the new file handle number will be higher than all the other numbers previously used? How do we know VFP won't recycle them?

I've never paid attention to the actual handle numbers returned, in general they are pretty meaningless to all but the O/S. I actually do very little with the LLFF. I'm much more fond of TEXTMERGE to create files and APPEND FROM to a cursor or memo field to read files. The only time I use LLFF is if the data is binary.