>Dmitry,
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>Just to add to your knowledge, SDF is Standard Data Format and it referes to a text file with fixed length fields in it. Your example file would look like this in SDF format;
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>ABC3333 23
>FDJFDDF 0
>HFHFF 5
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>and you would need to create a dbf that had;
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>CharFld C(8)
>NumFld N(2)
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Jim,
Thank you very much for your explanation.
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