Amy,
Apparently I do not understand the problem correctly, if you already know the length of each field, why don't you use that information in the append from command?
CREATE CURSOR curNewFile(field1 c(nFieldLen1),field2 c(nFieldLen2),field3 c(nFieldLen3), .., fieldN c(nFieldLenN))
APPEND FROM (cFilename) SDF
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