Found it! I had my memo field defined as memo(binary).

Thanks.

/Chris

>I'm accessing some VFP tables thru ODBC (VFP 6.00.816700) using VFP. After I populate the cursor the memo field now says "Gen" and when I try to view it I'm told:
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>"OLE object is invalid or corrupted"
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>Can anyone tell me what's wrong?
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>TIA,
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>/Chris