>>>*IF* you are certain that the maximum length of the field is 67 bytes, then put it into a regular field instead. That should be easy enough for you.
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>>tsk, if the fpt with 80% on Len(11) is nearly 2 Gig, adding a chr(67) will blow dbf size for sure <g>
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>He said the FPT is .6GB (later). And who knows how much of that is 'dead space'?
He also said he packed it - so set blocksize to 0...

>His whole D/B (i.e. not just a DBF) is 3GB he says.

Yupp, I scratch my had on where his problem is...