Ed,

I didn't go back and read whole thread, but possibly @. . . EDIT. . . would do the trick?. . . with the NOMODIFY clause for "read-only"?

Cheers,
Jim N

>I really cannot remind any limitation (string length) applied to @ SAY command (didn't use it for couple years). Maybe it means that it's longer than page width? Probably, someone here (better remembering 2.x) could help you.
>
>> Thanks Edward Pikman, it work fine but now the VFP shows me a message
>>saying "String is too long to fit", is there any way to solve this?
>>
>> Thanks nowly
>>
>> ander
>>
>>
>>
>> You could put memo content in character string
>> cObs=nota.obs
>> and print this string
>> @ SAY .... cObs