>>>Hi Fred,
>>>
>>>>>Any idea on how to write a FoxPro memo field to a text file?
>>>>
>>>>COPY MEMO memofieldname TO filename
>>>
>>>Your method seems better than the one I suggested for some reason ;-)
>>
>>Anything that works is a good method. I just try to go with what's built in, if I can. Something about not re-inventing the wheel, comes to mind... ;)
>
>I like STRTOFILE(), if for no other reason than it tells me how long the damned file is...

That's true, it will write to the file AND tell you how long it is in one command, if you need to know. A LEN() and then a COPY MEMO TO FILE takes 2. But STRTOFILE() is a VFP6 only command.