>I don't know where it is documented but from trials in VFP 6 SP5 indicate that you can use a aliasname up to 260 characters but truncates it to a maximum of 254 characters. So I would say that the maximum is 254 characters. Using aliasname longer than 260 characters in length, generates an error Invalid path or filename. Very strange.

should be it for:

Maximum length of a string literal: 255
??

Franco