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   From: mynamehere@comcast.net   
      
   "Stefanie"  wrote in message   
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   | Steve,   
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   | Thats the same as writing data to the file using Put, right ?   
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   | Stefanie   
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   I'm hoping you have access to help files and can look up Put. Its   
   behavior with variable length strings varies according to whether they   
   are in a UDT, and whether the file is opened Random or Binary.   
      
   As far as I can tell, Put will write a 2 byte length before writing a   
   variable length string to a file opened Random (UDT or not), which   
   allows Get to retrieve it correctly. The total record length would have   
   to be long enough for that. I don't believe you actually have to pad out   
   the string length unless you want to.   
      
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