>OK, good points (Al too). It's not just 8k of space, it's 8k x running threaded processes, but I get your point about looking elsewhere to optimize.

One good technique, regarding string composition, is to avoid stuff like

lcString=" some text here "+lcVariable1+chr(13)
lcString=lcString+" more text here "+lcVariable2+chr(13)
lcString=lcString+" yet more text here "+lcVariable3+chr(13)

because it can be done as

text textmerge to lcString noshow
some text here {{lcVariable1}}
more text here {{lcVariable2}}
yet more text here {{lcVariable3}}
endtext

(I've assumed Set Textmerge Delimiters to be {{ and }} so the html parser wouldn't treat them as tags.)

This specially makes sense when you're building a webpage and have a lot of such stuff. The only downside to this is that you can't nest it, i.e. if one of the expandable things is a function call, the function can't do its own textmerge.