>>>How would you append from a text file reading each line of the text file into 1 record of the dbf if the text line includes commas that you don't want to loose? Every attempt I've made brings in just the text to the first comma.
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>>You can use

>>APPEND...TYPE SDF
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>Thanks Sergey -
>I've used SDF before but never in this context. I'm concerned that the imported line might be longer than 255 characters.

Create 2 or more fields with 254 characters. You can concatenate them after import.