>>You should be able to import it into a Visual Foxpro table that mirrors its layout. As I recall the format may be found in the COBOL's file division.
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>>>Hi..
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>>>what is the best deal on the conversion from old comp3 cobol format data to ascii?
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>>>TIA
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>Hi Grady.. Thanks for your repli..
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>I meant, inside vfp.. IOW, to read a previously record data from cobol..

That's what I meant too.

Can you look in the cobol code to see the description of the table? If you can find the description, you can create a VFP table that matches the COBOL table's field description/layout and then use the vfp copyfile command to load it into the new VFP table.

Otherwise, have you tried the VFP foxpro import wizard? It's under the VFP file menu option.