>>>I dont need to store it as a memo field
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>>>Lets assume that the dat file is a single line 600 characters long with no separators - how do I get that into a VFP table of say 6 fields each of 100 characters?
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>>Why you need to put this file into DBF?
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>Ok - how do I process a string of 600 characters? I want to store the info somewhere - why not a dbf - what do you suggest? The processing of this data will be done in VFP

Create a dbf with 6 100 char fields and append from filex.dat type SDF