I found a workable solution. I installed DOS6 (argh) on a laptop and pyramid and prn2file and all is working and I am happy.

Haven't had a DOS machine in ages!

Thanks

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.