showing field longer than 80 characters on the screen

[James Flanagan]

Filepro 5.7.04
FREEBSD 9.2

I assume that I already know the answer to this one, but I figured that I should ask before I continue programming.

lets say i have a customer notes field that is 300 characters in length, and when displayed on a screen, i DO NOT want it to run the full 80 characters wide on the screen, and yet, i want the user to be able to read all 300 characters easily, and even perhaps edit and add to what is there.  I am assuming that I need to break it up using the MID command into smaller chunks of text and then assign each of those chunks to a screen variable.  however, if i divide it up into 6 rows of 50 characters, i am sure that words will be broken apart between lines, etc, and if you were to input some additional words on a middle line, the text would not simply flow from line to line like on a word processor.   

Is there a more elegant solution to this?  

I searched through the manual but cannot find anything that refers to what I am looking for (assuming that in my search i was referring to it properly).  Thank you very much in advance. 

James Flanagan
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