>I'm disappointed that in conversion you had a need to resort to using BASIC (I never did, thanks to Fox Software, I can't imagine a single thing that is doable in BASIC but not in FOX when the context is "data conversion").

Cetin
It was only when I was working with dBASE III that I had to resort to BASIC. One advantage (IMHO) of the LLFF is when the data is corrupt. The file I'm working on has some spurious characters in a few records and It's easier (again, IMHO) to catch these and retain the "good" data in those records. Makes it easier to send to the client and say "fix these" when you can give them something to work from.

Jen