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>What do you mean by this - SET TEXT TO?
>VFP 6 does not have this command in the help file. It has SET TEXTMERGE, but no SET TEXT TO.
>We are putting the info into a vfp table. The data could be C, I, or N.

Woops, yes SET TEXTMERGE TO filename additive

I like it for these sort of workarounds when buffering and transactions can't (or won't) be used since the \\<<>> will do type casting on the fly and opening a plain file is much cheaper than dealing with a dbf.