Hi Alison

There are lots of compression utilities you can use in VFP to zip or otherwise compress. Look up "VFP Compression" on google for lots of examples.

However, if you are using a TEXT field in a SQL Server database then you need to check whether your version is allocating space for TEXT fields in 2K blocks. If it is, you may not see much saving if your source size is <4K. Second, you can't store binary files in a TEXT field because certain character combinations will truncate your field and corrupt the contents. You'll have to use an IMAGE field for binary data.

If you are talking about dbf tables, you can safely compress data for a memo file and see the savings you hope for. Or you can place your dbfs in a Windows compressed folder and though it says they are occupying 200Mb on disk it may be only 50mb physical storage. You might also consider $100 for a larger drive...

HTH

Regards

JR