>Funny
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>I had the source table open, so presumably VFP had its alias. When I included the full path to the source, which is in a different folder from the target, instead of just the alias, it worked.
>
>I expect you've got a logical explanation to this? :-)
Terry,
The syntax of the command is
APPEND FROM FileName
IOW, it dosn't accept an alias.
--sb--