Dragan,

Bingo! the field was too short. How clumbsy I didn't notice. Thanks for the support.

Regards,

Koen


P.S. Tore, the fieldname 'readonly' is not my invention, this is how the Labels.dbf, which comes with VFP, is made by ?? I just used that dbf, to illustrate my problem. It is also my favourite 'testing companion' for quick and dirty tests.