OK, now I am having excel write the csv file, then foxpro appends this to
premade table: oe2005, but some unsual things are still happening. For instance,
in a field called mYear that could be stuffed with a number like
val(dtos(ctot(date and time info)))
or with a string like
dtos(ctot(date and time info))
or with a real datetime and in a T, datetime field

(Then I do a browse and see that the mYear field is nicely full of data.)

But, when I do this command, the field mYear unexpectedly turns up blank,
and in every case.

SELECT * from oe2005 INTO TABLE oe2 ORDER BY mYear

This is also something I have never seen before.
Thanks
Steve