Yes, the use of variables would be better.
>Neil,
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>I think the whole use of memos in this particular process should be chunked into the nearest wastebasket. *s*
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>>This is why I suggested scanning the file and find the max memo data size then add 20% to it then insert dummy data equal to this size, then the fpt won't bloat, just write to the same set of blocks.
Regards N Mc Donald