Hi Agnes,
>>1) Read dbf and fpt data into different arrays, gather into dbf but save the fpt array as a whole into the memo. Reccomended 2.x technique<bg>

>Sounds interesting bzt - I do not realy catch it.
>Could give an example?

of course:

local laStructuredData_65k_Elements
= FillmyArray(@laStructuredData_65k_Elements)
Save To Memo all Like laStructuredData_65k_Elements

Worked wonders on a very old app needing to communicate oodles of data with another vfp process -
had already about 1300 data elements in 3 arrays. Blew away every other method of passing - COM, OLE, String-Serializing by just using a semaphore table (but on much slower processors - the speed of cpu increased more, so measure again<g>).

regards

thomas