>Does anyone have a technique to copy the contents of a *.dbf file with memo fields to an Excel spreadsheet?

Use OLE Automation of excel. Here is a small example:

SELECT table

ox=CREATEOBJECT('Excel.Application')
ox.workbooks.add()

mnrowadd=0
SCAN
	ox.Activeworkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells(1+mnrowadd,1).Value=Field1
	ox.Activeworkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells(1+mnrowadd,2).Value=Field2
	ox.Activeworkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells(1+mnrowadd,3).Value=Field3
	ox.Activeworkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells(1+mnrowadd,4).Value=Field4
	ox.Activeworkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells(1+mnrowadd,5).Value=Field5
	ox.Activeworkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells(1+mnrowadd,6).Value=Field6
	mnrowadd=mnrowadd+1
ENDSCAN

ox.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(%filename%)
ox.Quit
RELEASE ox

HTH