>>It would have been nice if the LIST command would have allowed an .TXT output. It puts it on the screen nicely.
>>Maybe I could have come up with a redirect command that would have fooled the system into writing to a text file while it thought it was writing to the screen.
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>It does -
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>list to mytext.txt
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>...and you get the word Memo or memo for each memo field in each record, lowercase for empty.


BINGO...

Taking your suggestion one step further.

I need the contents of the memo field, not just the indicator (memo or Memo)

LIST FIELDS field1, memo1 TO output.txt results with the contents of the memo field listed in the text output.

Thanks for getting me back the the "simple" solution.

Dennis