>>>>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.

This is a problem? (see my original reply that pointed out the two solutions...)