>I have a TextBox on a form where I am trying to stuff a message. The message seems to stop after 255 characters. In looking at the help, it says that if MaxLength=0, then there is no limit. Does this really mean no limit, up to 255 characters?

The maximum length of an unbound textbox, at least under VFP6, can be very large, but if you're bound to a fixed-length field, the value won't be able to retain any of the string beyond the length of the bound field. It doesn't miraculously change a c(10) to have the storage capacity of a memo field...