>>You know, there are many functions that take a string parameter and that >>doesn't mean they accept the maximum length. Some of these > anywhere the >maximum length. Did they ever overcome the 255 limit in ?, ?? statements? Ever tried to display a line longer than that? Once I had to do a really weird report, and ended up with something like OneRow=space(320) Proc stuff_it para _what, _pos OneRow=Stuff(OneRow, _pos, len(_what),_what) And then "printed" the row with =fwrite(OutFH, OneRow+chr(13)+Chr(10)) In all other tries I've got crlf after 255 chars. Besides, I think it was connected with the maximal Set("memo"). Still on 255?