>>Colin,
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>>What is the ideal blocksize to allocate?
>>
>>What's going in the memo?
>
>Vaiable length text could be upto 100-200 chars

I suggest you try 256. Be aware that you must a sequence of two COPY TO commands to make the change take effect. A better solution may be to update to VFP9, and use a varchar field. Or you can simply use c(200) field? In general, a memo field is not good for frequently changed/add data.