>>Couldn't be any easier than that. I had thought that it would not work becuase FILETOSTR returns a character and "character fields in Visual FoxPro are limited to 254 characters." Yet it does work.
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>The Filetostr() funtion returns string value which could be as big as 16 Mb.

I think, it could be even bigger, but I would not recommend to try to find the limit... It depends on available RAM