>>I've got an application which will be compiled and distributed to a large number of users (an electronic survey). They'll be installing it on their computers, completing the survey, copying the files back to disk and returning the data to me.
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>>I've got a number of 'free form' questions for which I'm using memo fields to collect the data. What are your thoughts on the use of them? (I'm using VFP 5.0) I remember in old dBase days we tended to avoid memo fields, but was curious what the thinking was on them these days. Are there any special considerations I should keep in mind?
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>>Many thanks as always :)
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>>Mandy
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>In dBase days my main reason to avoid them was disk space consideration, but
>now I don't avoid memo fields at all, especially after I bought 6.4 Gb HDD recently... :)
Nick,
Thanks much for your opinion. You've got to love cheap storage! ;^).
Mandy
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