>>>>>>>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.
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>>>>>I haven't tried yet, but you can have 65,000 variables in a single table?
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>>>>Raymond, are you speaking about variables or about fields?
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>>>Variables
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>>It's something wrong here. Tables don't contains variables. They host fields and records.
>Ooops, fields

Ok. Number of fileds are really limited by 255. You may use John's advice (low-level functions) to create ASCII file here.