>I need to write (or modify) a VFP 7 program (non SQL based) to 'export' memo fields (as well as character, numeric, etc) to an ASCII file.
>This ASCII file would be imported by non-VFP applications.
>Generally, what methods have been successful?
>Is the best way to break the memo field into shorter segments of a fixed lenght?
>TIA.

Allan,
You first should know how the importer app. could deal with memo. A memo file could include CRLF which would define an end-of-record to most ASCII importers.
IMHO currently best is to use CursorToXML() which defines the start and end of fields by tags.
Cetin