Joe,

On a form with this Init method:

lparameter pcStr

activate window "debug output"
debugout len( pcStr )
debugout pcStr

This command works fine for me:

do form x1 with replicate( "abcABC", 300 ) + "<"

You know that a string constant in VFP can not be longer that 255 characters, but string memvars can be upto 16 meg long.

>>I start up a form from another form and need to pass it a large amount (2-4K) of text. I then need the text returned to the calling form.
>>Do I just create a variable and pass that variable then return it? It works but is that an acceptable method?
>
>Actually it doesn't work. The string is too long. Any ideas on how to do this?