importing extended descriptions from excel

[Mike Schwartz]

> > Can someone please help me out or at least point me in the right
direction?
> >
> > I have an excel files from my vendors which I usually use for
> > importing in price increases and other small modifications but now I'd
> > like to import extended descriptions into Filepro too. When I tried
> > using a memo field for that data I got a critical error which forced
Filepro to
> close.
> [Snip]
> >
> > Thank You, Mike
> 
>       You didn't mention which version of filePro you or on, nor your
operating
> system, but check the size of your PFIMPBUF environmental variable.  By
> default I think PFIMPBUF is set fairly small, like 1024 characters.  This
means
> filePro will truncate any "import" records to a maximum length of 1024
> characters.  Increase PFIMPBUF large enough to handle the longest incoming
> record you expect in your .DIF files.
> 
> Mike Schwartz