>Lutz
>-thanks for correct the typo in _cliptext (_clipboard)
>-set memowidth Specifies a width between 8 and 8192 columns. The default width for output is 50 columns.
> fortunatly alines dont depend of this.
>yes as i said above,i know ,used in big strings these function (memlines,set memowidth,mline (_mline is better)), are very slow.
>but to each vfp problem, each vfp solution !

Let that be the best solution. There is no need to provide every solution.

>thank you for the feed back.