>Maybe they want to reserve the rest for the the system variables (e.g. _TALLY) ?
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It's not an issue of name table entries. It has something to do with the internal structure of a VFP array variable's value entry. Like I said, I don't remember the exact reason for this, but there actually was a reason for it at one time. An array takes up only one name table index entry; the max number of elements in an array s unaffected by MVCOUNT in the CONFIG.FPW

The details of how VFP stores variables are described in some detail in the OnLine Help files in the discussion of the VFP API.

>>>there's a reason why it's 65000 rather than 64K, but for the life of me I don't remember it.
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>>Maybe they just wanted a nice round number. Maybe it has somethign to do with the number of characters in a cursor record?