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>Thanks, that will do it. I was hoping for another undocumented default setting that could just be turned on now and then turned off later (a lot less coding that way)
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>Donny

Correction...

You don't need to zero out the codepage and set it to the codepage of the data you're appending in. There's an AS clause on the APPEND FROM command where you can tell VFP the codepage of the appended data.

paul