>Actually, I know I put VFP8 in the message header, but I can use VFP9 for this if I do the processing in the service I'm writing itself instead of the destination application, which is in version 8. Does that make a difference?
If you do processing in VFP9, then you're only limited by available memory. In prior VFP versions arrays were limited to ~65K elements.
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