>>any ideas on how to pack/compress general fields? info is stored in .fpt file, but pack memo (as far as i can tell) doesn't do anything.
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>IMHO, PACK itself (w/out MEMO clause) will compress both dbf and fpt files.

i tried that. file went from 27Meg to just over 24Meg. 15% reduction would be about what i expected for memo text alone.