>I am using VFP8 on Windows XP. foxrun.pif points to cmd.exe
>Some time ago I started to experience an error "program too big to fit into memory' for the following snippet:
>

>LCOMMAND = 'xcopy \quitelongdir1\permits\*.pdf \quitelongdir1\permits\*.PDF /S /Y'
>RUN &LCOMMAND
>

>at the same time no problem with
>

>lcommand = 'xcopy \quitelongdir1\permits\*.pdf \quitelongdir2\permits\*.PDF /S /Y'
>STRTOFILE( lcommand , "permcopy.bat" )
>RUN permcopy.bat
>

>Is there any way to make former work ?

There is a shortcut file in the Windows directory called _DEFAULT which I believe is used as a default for cmd windows. Try changing the memory options defined there. Make a backup first :)