Hi Fred,

>Why was the length of a character variable changed from 2GB to 16MB between VFP5 & 6?

It wasn't, the 16 MB limit existed already in FoxPro 2.5. But no-one noticed it before. *g* Actually, it was a documentation bug.

>In fact in VFP6/SP3, I can read a file into a character variable using FILETOSTR and be larger than 16MB.

That's strange. It shouldn't happen, because it might cause some other problems later on. I'll test it if I find some time, thanks for the pointer.

Christof