I thought that APPEND GENERAL needed a real OLE object capable of 'handling" the named file. Have you tried including the CLASS clause with its parameter?

From what you say it looks like a memo field should work for you, no?

good luck,

JimN

>All,
>
>I'm developing an application using vfp6.0. I want to let user select a
>file and save to a general field. But the "append general" command doesn't
>accept the file if the path+file name is over 60(?) charactors.(For example:
>append general link1 from "\\win98-testing\vfp-application\folder1-123456\
>folder2-1234567890\folder3-1234567890\file1.txt" link
>
>It is foxpro's bug?
>
>Any suggestion?
>
>Thanks in advanced.