>While doing a low-level routine for copying data between files for showing advance, I've descovered something interesting:
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>Documentation says that FREAD support 65536 bytes (64 KiB) max.length, but the limit in VFP 9 is really 16777184 bytes (16 MiB), iow, 256 more times!
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>And another interesting thing is that this limit is the same of the max.size of a string variable:
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>Maximum # of characters per character string or memory variable. 16,777,184
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>A "little" detail that the FoxTeam forgot to document.
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>This should be added to VFPx FoxHelp File.
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>Best Regards!
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>Fernando D. Bozzo

try FILETOSTR() with a 200MB file ...