>>What happens if you open the table without the alias MyOUT?
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>Wow. That was it...!
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>If I don't use the Alias, the code executes just as fast as if I comment out the line to open the table. Is this documented somewhere? IOW, should I feel stupid on this one?
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>Rick, Thanks for the suggestion. Anyone know why opening a table with an alias would cause the performance drop on the insert?

Glad that worked, but since you need the table opened with an alias and the insert into dbf('myout') didn't work, try changing the line at the top of your code:

lcInFile = "testout"

to:

lcInFile = "MyOUT"