Correcting my post from a few minutes ago ...

memototext is a figment of my imagination...

the new memo field was poppulated with CustID + "," + OldMemo

Sorry...

Dennis

>>I've been away form VFP for a bit, so I'm a bit rusty, and I can't construct the following.
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>>A free table has a customer ID and a memo field with various comments.
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>>I want to "export" this to a Text file.
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>>IF I use COPY TO... type csv, the memo fields do not show. Do have to apply a function to get them into the csv file?
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>>IF I create a report, it shown the memo field when displayed or printed, but when I try to create a text version of the report, the memo field comes across as garbage, not ascii.
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>>Other options, or gotchas that I may have missed?
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>>Thanks.
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>If the table is not too big, you can scan it and manually output row by row using low-level file operations or strtofile.