>I've just discovered (the hard way) that COPY TO TYPE XL5 seems to be limited to 16383 records. BTW, EXPORT TO has the same limitation. I can't find any documentation confirming this behavior. The tricky thing is that VFP doesn't return any error. It simply stops copying after 16383 records...
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>I guess the only solution is to use automation to pull the records into Excel. This of course is much slower than COPY TO :(
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>Can anyone confirm or preferably deny this limitation :)
It's a fact.
See MSKB#
Q103355
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.