>Thanks for your response. Can you issue the APPEND GENERAL command through the ODBC connection? Will foxpro process it similar to how it processes a command in a .prg file? How would we issue or code this command?

I can only repeat that I do not know what do you mean exactly "ODBC connection".
VFP OLEDB provider is a better choice anyway.

From VFP Help, "OLE DB Provider for Visual FoxPro", "Supported Visual FoxPro Commands and Functions in OLE DB Provider" one can see that APPEND GENERAL is supported. So, in theory you can use it with VFP OLE DB provider.
Before doing it in C you can check whether it works from VFP environment and with ADO statements like:

cnnVFP = createobj("adodb.Connection")
cnnVFP.Open ("Provider=VFPOLEDB.1;Data Source=C:\"+CURDIR()+";Collating Sequence=MACHINE")
cnnVFP.Execute("set exclusive off")

lctext="use table_name"+CHR(13)+"go record_number"+CHR(13)+"APPEND general lGfile FROM filename"
?cnnVFP.Execute([EXECSCRIPT("]+lctext+[")]).Fields(0).Value

However when I tryed the above, it gave me "The feature is not supported" message on the very last line.
But this command is working:
lctext="use table_name"+CHR(13)+"go record_number"+CHR(13)+"blank fields lGfile"


I doubt that you will find anybody having solid experience with general fields via ODBC/OLEDB.
Means, you need to investigate the approach on your own.
Sure, if I get additional information, I will contact you. But for now, this is only what I can tell you.

Good Luck