>>With VFP6 is the Max number of variables 255? If it is, and you had four related tables each with 200 variables, how would bring them together to export into a single (big) ASCII table?
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>>thanks
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>Firstly, maximum # of variables=65,000 (it's from VFP5 help and I guess VFP6 has at least not less). Also, variable is not the same as table field value, and obviously when you export data (COPY TO...) you don't create variables at all.
I haven't tried yet, but you can have 65,000 variables in a single table?
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