>>Have I have been deluding myself for years?
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>Apparently. < g >
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>>If I APPEND FROM from a table which has a memo field named MyNotes into a table with a character field named MyNotes, ought not the contents of MyNotes be transferred from the memo field into the character field, or at least as much as will fit?
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>APPEND FROM/COPY TO don't process memo fields. Never have.
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>Tamar
Another interesting result is that
ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN will retain the contents of a character field when it's converted to a memo, but not the other way.
Cheers,
Andrew
If we were to introduce Visual FoxBase+, would we be able to work from the dotNet Prompt?
From Top 22 Developer Responses to defects in Software
2. "It’s not a bug, it’s a feature."
1. "I thought I fixed that."
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