>>Nadya,
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>>>FileToStr is limited by 16MB.
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>>No, it isn't. I used it to read in a 38MB file last week to do some strtran() cleanup of the content.
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>David,
>
>Could you show some code content? Are you sure, you used it in VFP6.0? I thought, the string limit in VFP6 is 16MB (I believe, John Koziol told me this limit while ago).

Nadya,
From the VFP Help file (i.e. not just JohnK). . .

Maximum # of characters per character string or memory variable 16,777,184