Steve,

> 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.

Yes i read that too, but i don't understand how to do this:

This are the variables declared in my module.

    Type Record
        vDateTime As String * 19
        vFileName As String
    End Type

    Public RecVar As Record

Using vFileName As String * 255 gives my enough for een full path, but most 
of the time it's wasting space.

I use this for opening my file:

    Open strFileName For Random As #Dnr Len = Len(RecVar)

But it's gives an error. "Bad record lenght"

Maybe somebody can offer me an example how to use the aforesaid.

Stefanie
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