>I believe the low-level functions do not eliminate memo bloat. I did a bunch of reading on them and they still seemed to be constrained by base VFP logic.

I don't understand. Lowlevel file functions are not constrained by anything. They're almost (if not exactly) identical to C counterparts. They wouldn't have a realtion with memo bloat because you wouldn't even use it to read/write a memo. Instead read/write a file representing memo content.

Cetin