>Either way you look at it you are flirting with disaster if your memos are that large. If you have a dbf, fpt or cdx over 2 gig you should consider either redisigning your schema to scale better or use another data engine that doesn't have the size limitation of a dbf/fpt structure, IMO.

Hi Eric,

In pursuit of 'another data engine', I just priced SQL Server 2000 at $4678, which I dont think my client will swallow...

I am going to try to store the data as character records in a table, copy them into an edit box for editing, then strip out carriage returns etc. and save each line as a record back to the table.

I tried to find something that does this in the 'download' section of the UT but was unable.

Thanks for your help.