>>Hey Mark,
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>>I've trying that by I get garbage that looks like this:
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>>MX
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>>What I really need to do is to take the result of a diplay memo command and get it into the memo field.
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>What about DISPLAY MEMORY TO FILE ... and then APPEND MEMO ... FROM filename

Thanks, I knew there had to be a better way than reading the DIPSLAYed data using low-level file access.