Yes, it treats it like a memo field. You can SET MEMOWIDTH TO 6000 to give yourself some room.

>Im using VFP 5.0 to output data to a text file for a mainframe to read in. The line gets all out of whack and breaks up after i add fields making it longer than 254 characters. IS there a logical limit in vfp? Im sure_ i did very_ long file lines like this in fox for dos.
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