Just nitpicking....

There is no Memo data type. Only Memo field type.

Also, there is no problem with doing this with large text files- VFP variables can hold as much string as you have memory.

>Well the simple way is to read all of your file into a foxpro memo type variable them just use concatenation to add your text to the front of it and then just write the whole thing back.
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>You may not want to do this with large text files.
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>I have done it with files of up to 3k in length and it seem to do it in no time at all.