Good point I haven't try

Luis

>> Another idea instead of FREAD() it's to create a table or cursor with the
>> structure of each of the fields he finds, and then use Append From SDF.
>>
>> Luis
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>The only reason I did not recommend this course of action is due to what appears a lack of a record terminator (chr(13)) at the end of each record, and I have never used APPEND FROM ... TYPE SDF under this circumstance.
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>Will it still work?