Walter, fairly sure it's caused by the code downloaded from the wiki that uses an object property to store the message byte by byte. As you'd expect, I'd have used a VFP cursor with a memo field that runs like a scalded cat even if it decides to spool to disk... but see other message for the solution I think we came up with.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
