Rolf,
Just asked this to an old clipper programmer to be sure and he just LOLed.
Probably he's referring to char field size limit which is 254. Or probably he's a clipper 'user' not 'programmer'.
Cetin

>Hi Cetin.
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>Yes, I know Clipper reads Dbase dbf's. I could just as well create a dbf and put the info in fields, but the other guy wants a .txt file, with the info as a string, with carriage returns between fields. Which is the raw format of the data from a blood testing apparatus. I was hoping someone with Clipper experience could set the issue straight - the other guy is a type that I don't particularly care for arguing with..
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>Anyway, he has suggested that I remove some of the info that he doesn't need - I just think the problem rightly belongs in his ballpark and I would like to be able to tell him so.
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>Hope to hear from you again when I might have a real problem.
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>Rolf