> I created a line of text similar to what was giving me problems including carriage return/line feed characters (this was before I asked for help here) and the parser accepted it with no problem.

So you tried something like:cCmd= "update clmlog set descrip='Test " + chr(13) + ;
"Description' where recno()=13"
SQLExec(Hndl,cCmd)
...and that worked ok?

By the way, could the problem have been related to the length of the data in the editbox?