>Dragan,
>
>>Textmerge works in FPD2.6, just not into a variable. You can redirect it into a file, and BTW the handle is in the system variable _text, so you can mix fwrite(_text, "any text") with your textmerge, and it'll still work.
>
>Why you guys keep saying this, even after I confirmed it works? You guys do not trust me? Want a Screen shot?

>
>

>lcText = ''
>set textmerge on
>
>text to lcText noshow textmerge
>	This is a Test
>	The current date is <<Date()>>
>	And you can see it works.
>endtext
>? lcText
>

>
>Works for me in FoxPro 2.6 DOS

Looks so, but it doesn't. I would have expected the text to show up twice - once because there was console on during the textmerge, second time for the ?lctext, but it doesn't. Besides, I'd try ?"*"+lcText+"*", just to see how's the padding, and I'd get just **.