>It is not a direct answer, but I guess you have your data in a server because you have more than 2GB to process. If that is so, yould could swithc to Etecnologia's VFP for .Net compiler, which allows 64-bit-pointer tables. You could do everything directly, without batching, in VFP.
And also should run in Linux with Mono.
[Update]
http://etecnologia.net/Products/VFPCompiler/VFPCompiler-index.htm
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