I think you have mis-directed your reply. I am not the one looking for a large file....
>>Or if you can point me to somewhere on the web where i can grab a big text file I can convert into to DBF that
> would be useful too.
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>John,
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>Try the Federal Election Commission (
http://www.fec.gov/finance/ftpdet.htm). They have databases of every donations over $100 to any federal campaign for the last few election cycles. They have large flat files conveniently ZIPed and have the corresponding campaign databases so you can even use a relational example. Don't know how big you need, but you can always import these fairly large databases a couple of times. They have over 50MB--zipped of flat files.
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>Dan