>Hi George,
>
>Apparently I have something set somewhere that I can't find. I've got sp1 installed. The messagebox is getting the info from a memo field in a table. Doing a substr() will shorten the display but once it gets over 256 chars it will only display the 256. I have SET MEMOWIDTH TO 500. Any ideas?
>
Jim,

Try assigning the memo field to a string (use ALLTRIM()) and see if that helps.