>And a little warning if you ever choose to use memo file in between. W/o using lowlevel a memo max line width is 1024 AFAIK (hope I'm wrong and changed). If what I know is true, that would mean you wouldn't be able to use a recordsize > 1024 w/o extra care (such as using recsize instead of mline()).

Under VFP6 at least, I can retrieve up to 8192 - beyond that, it truncates the line, even though the memo can BIG. The following demonstrates the limit under VFP6:

CREATE TABLE TEMP (TempMemo M)
APPEND BLANK
REPLACE TempMemo WITH REPL('ABCD',5000)
cTempBefore = MLINE(TempMemo,1)
SET MEMOWIDTH TO LEN(TempMemo)
cTempAfter=MLINE(TempMemo,1)
? LEN(cTempBefore), LEN(cTempAfter), LEN(TempMemo)

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