Fox 2.6 has a 2 gig limit on strings also. See page A-5 in the developer guide.

>>Cool! Are string variables limited to 255 characters in VFP6 as they have been in previous versions?
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>>>Folks,
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>>>Have you ever needed to write a character string to a file, or read a file into a character string. Perhaps you used a memo field to hanlde the requirement. In VFP6 you can use the STRTOFILE() function to write a character string to a file, or append it to one. The FILETOSTR() function reads a file and stores the contents into a string variable.
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>Gary,
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>String variables have had a 2GB limit since VFP3.