>Just adding to what has been said that the easiest way for me to find a limit of a command is to use:
>
>
>try
> lcCmd = Replicate('*', 8190)
> &lcCmd
> lcCmd = Replicate('*', 8191)
> &lcCmd
>catch
> ? 'Did not work for ', Len(lcCmd)
>endtry
>
>* or
>
>try
> lcCmd = Replicate('*', 8190)
> Execscript(lcCmd)
> lcCmd = Replicate('*', 8191)
> Execscript(lcCmd)
>catch
> ? 'Did not work for ', Len(lcCmd)
>endtry
>Thank you for illustrating the point. My string was considerably shorter but didn't work. I suspect that the content of my string somewhere was causing the problem. So, to get around it, I have changed the way the string is created (it is much shorter and much simpler) and all works well now.
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