Bernadro,

I am going to start a new thread with a more specific title mentioning 'MEMO'.
Now that we have narrowed the problem down, perhaps we can attact more interest?

>Allan
>I once did export memo fields to ascii and XLS but since the memo can have a CHR(13) in it I makes it very difficult to export them. to ascii, in Excel is more easy because a cell can behave like a memo and hold the special characters like CHR(13), CHR(10) etc.
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>To modify the utility to do just that, you need to modify the clik code on the export tool
>The utility uses a copy to “dddd” type XLS command on the result query
>That has to be modify to, via automation, crate your XLS file or go beyond the 16,000 records limit.
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>>Bernado,
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>>I * do * need to 'export' (and I use that word loosely) memo fields in addition to the character, number, data fields to a '.txt' ascii file.
>>Is my best (and maybe only) option to use low-level file functions like 'fputs'?
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