My best advice is to avoid general fields, AT ALL COST! Use a binary memo field in stead,

>Hello folks,
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>Thanks very much for the assistance so far. Last enquiry before the weekend.
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>For various reasons, I need to use the horrible General field type to hold RTF text so that it will print formatted on a report...
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>However, the RTF editing form control can only use a memo field as control source...
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>So after editing I need an explicit way of updating the General field contents with any revised memo contents. General fields seem a pain to populate.
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>Following recommendations, I've tried this in the RTF box lostfocus method:
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>=strtofile(notes,"oot.rtf")
>append general gnotes from "oot.rtf"
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>However unsurprisingly, this is grindingly slow and makes the navigation really clunky.
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>I've tried playing with the append general command to find a way of directly writing a string without writing it to disk, but so far without joy. It seems as though there must be a way to do this. Is there?
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>Thanks in advance
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>John