I'll try that workaround. Interesting idea.

Maybe this is a VFP bug, since I am not really out of memory. In the past, I have seen the NT OS give this error when a system DLL ran out of file handles or something like that and a service pack was needed.


>Steve,
>You might do this :
>create cursor myTemp (myFile m)
>append memo myFile from 'e:\bigfile.txt'
>
>Cetin