>Thanks! I think I asked too quick...I figured it out with some help from MS (Q108824). I wasn't sure if a variable in VFP could handle more than 256 characters...That's a good question, What is the limit of a VFP 5.0 Char Data-Type Var? Can it handle whatever the memo fields accumulate to? is it limited only by RAM? I used SCATTER MEMVAR MEMO and then dumped M.Notes into _ClipText and inserted CHR(13) in between each item's memo.
Character-type variables can be up to 2 GB or so. It seems that some functions are limited to 16 MB. Practical limitations would depend, among others, on free memory: in my tests, it is extremely slow to manipulate a string of several 100 MB, with only 64 MB total RAM. The relevance of this is mainly that it limits the usefulness of FileToStr() to files of a few MB, at most.
Hilmar.
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