Hi Edward, FCOPY's DEBLOCK option can be used to split each record in two. Then you can read each pair and treat them as a record. Regards, Frank Gribbin Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 11:43:54 -0500, Edward Berner <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Hello, > >I've been playing with BASIC/V a little lately, and I'm curious about >something. I have a file with a 318 byte record size. Is there any way to >read a whole record from this file into a BASIC/V program? I seem to be >limited by BASIC/V's string length limit of ~255 chars. > >Thanks. > >-- >Edward Berner * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *