I Steve,

It's not good idea to use VFP reserved words as field names because you never know when it could bite you. The Mline() is a function that works with memofields, btw.
What's significant about the 23rd character in each line? Is it the last character in the line? What's setting for ? SET("Memowidth")? What are you doing with cc.text in Modify Command?

>Hi, I am having a wierd problem. I copy a memo to a text file cc.txt
>
>Then I open another DBF, one with a field called mline, 254 characters long. But
>when I look at the data in the mline field, exactly one character has been
>cut off. It is the 23rd character in each line. Help?? I thought appe from text
>file type sdf was reliable?
>Thanks
>Steve
>
>&& code
>copy memo notes to cc.txt
>modi comm cc.txt
>wait
>
>&& the mline.dbf has the first field, also named mline, 254 characters long.
>sele 2
>use
>use mline
>appe from cc.txt type sdf
>go top
>brow font "courier"
>wait