>Larry,
>Thanks for replying, the field is a text field and by compress a field I mean that I want the field to take up less space on the drive.
Alison,
Sorry for being dense today.
This is VFP 6 memo field and you want the FPT file to take up less space on disk? Or do you want to create a file compression utility using VFP 6 that works on any file?
Larry Miller
MCSD
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