Hi Dragan,

This gets me nowhere <g>. I would try another approach: Is it possible to send the output from a dos program using LPT1 to a file which increments itself. So i f I print 150 pages I get someting file0001, file0002.....

I have to export the filenotes wich are sitting in the .dbv file into the new improved VFP9 application for aboutr 25000 claims some of them might have 1 or 150 pages of notes. I had sone this in the past for about 3000 claims by printing them out and then scanning them in and produced 50000 pages (how many trees was that?).
printing to file would be much easier. Then I could read them in and find the claim no on the top of page and index them correctly.


thanks for you valuable input.


Peter


>>There is a dbf called form.dbf and a memo file called form.dbv
>>form.dbf has a field called form(c6) which contains high order ascii characters.
>>I searched for a known filenote and found it at offset 101100213 .
>>the form field for this is chr(174)+chr(170)+chr(134)+chr(134)+chr(198)+chr(227)
>>Another one is at offset 100228035
>>the form field for this is chr(188)+chr(219)+chr(249)+chr(133)+chr(223)+chr(229)
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>>wierd isn't it
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>Sure is... I looked at all your numbers as hex, and couldn't make heads or tails of it. You may try to measure the lengths of your memos, to see if the lengths are somehow expressed in the form fields... though I'd rather expect them to be in some sort of headers before the actual text (last 4 to 8 bytes before the string found).
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>Two pairs is just not enough to come to any conclusion.