I think MEMVAR was available in FoxPro 2.0! :) I know what you mean - SET TESTMERGE TO MEMVAR. It looks like management had better get what I need. Thank you for the examples.

Tom


>Grrrr... I'm in a versioning problem, I don't remember if MEMVAR was at VFP6 SP5 :(
>So, Tom will have to told us if memvar was present at that version...
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>>Things have been a �bit hectic� around here so it took some time to get back to you.
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>>When I attempted to compile I received the message, �Command contains unrecognized phrase/keyword". I finally got over that problem. As the query becomes more complex I will realize if there are limitations for what I have to accomplish.
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>>Thank you for your response and suggestions. Part of the problem was the 255 character limit. Visual FoxPro 6 does not have the Text/EndText function so I am trying Mike�s suggestion. Thank you for the error code - it lets me know when there is a problem. :)
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>>I am trying to convince management to upgrade to Visual FoxPro 8. That may help a bit.
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>>Until then, you can do textmerge into a file, give it a .prg name, and compile it (provided you're at least vfp6 Service Pack 3 or Service Pack 4, don't remember exactly which one was it) on-the-fly and run it.
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>>As to Esparta's version of the same suggestion, I'm not sure the memvar clause was supported back then. AFAIR, it appeared in VFP7.