>What is your preferred way to get a file? What is easiest, more consistent (less issues/problems) with foxpro? (ex: text comma delimeted, text fixed lenght, excel, etc, etc).
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>Thank you.

If the structure of the file doesn't change, then the format doesn't matter much since you can use APPEND FROM.

Though with Excel, AFAIK, you may have problems with date fields and numeric fields.