I have a file called datconv with a memo field into which I have appended the data from dat files

But when i try to process the memo fields much of the data is missing - my reasoning is that I am missing data because reading the dat file into the memo field in the first instance had created 2-3 lines in the memo field because of its length

On the assumption that the dat files have very long lines lets say over 500 characters how can I create a dbf file from them - the data has no formatting

Hope this is understandable