>>What was the reason for the 8K limit on the length? I am storing in the user memo field lengths longer and they work...
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>The 8K isn't a limit of member data; it's a limit of a single property stored in the PROPERTIES memo. I don't know why MS imposed a limit, since it's stored in a memo field.

This rings a tiny bell... maybe wrong. But... wasn't 8k the limit for the length of a single compiled line? So a thing like that would be an implicit text-endtext or other assignment statement, which should compile within 8k. As practically all of it is a single literal, I assume nothing gets tokenized or compressed in any way, so 8k source roughly gets 8k object code. Could this be it?