>>I have heard conflicting stories as to whether or not NT has the same 2GB limit on file size that earlier versions of Windows had. In fact, it's not an area where I have many clear facts at all.
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>>If there is no limit to file size in NT (or a very large one), should we put a request to break the 2GB table size limit onto the wish list?
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>NT can use both FAT and NTFS. FAT is limited to 2 Gig, but NTFS is not. The 2 Gig limitation in VFP is probably here to stay. If you need to go bigger, break up your data or use SQL Server. However, I will pass your ER onto MS.

Actually, under NT, a FAT16 volume can be up to 4GB, but I don't think that the file system is or has been the governing issue for quite a while - huge disk volumes have been available for some time (NTFS, HPFS, NetWare.)

Under Win9x (and Win2K), FAT32 also can exceed the 2GB limit.