Memo Block Size

Memo blocks size is used when creating FoxPro-compatible FPT and Advantage-proprietary ADM memo files. The size of the memo block is configurable to allow you to conserve disk space. The default value is 64 bytes. For example, if a memo has 100 bytes with a block size of 64 bytes, two blocks would be allocated to store the memo. To eliminate the 36 bytes of unused space, you may set the block size to 100. A memo block size of 50 would also result in no wasted space.

Note For FoxPro FPT files, the values that may be entered for the block size is 1 - 1024. The minimum block size allowed is 33 bytes. If 1-32 is specified, the actual block size is n x 512 bytes, where n is 1 - 32. For Advantage ADM files, valid memo block sizes are from 8-1024 bytes.