>George,
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>It's probably a function of SET MEMOWIDTH and ?, which has a pretty small default and ? will only show the first N characters of a paragraph (ie until the first CRLF pair)
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>I copied a big paragraph plus several lines of text with hard returns to the clipboard, then in VFP did ?len(_cliptext) which seemed appropriate, the did ? _cliptext and saw only a "thin" column of what was there. SET MEMOWIDTH to 1024 and ? _cliptext showed everything.
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>But bottom line is _cliptext does have the proper contents.
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David,

Thanks for the insight. I hadn't even considered that SET MEMOWIDTH might impact how _CLIPTEXT outputs.