>Strictdate was set to 1, the default, but the behavior is the same when I set it to 0. With date set to mdy, appending a nn/nn/nn date doesn't give me a century. With date set to ymd, it gives me a century for a 20th century date (and gives me the right date) but reads a 21st century date as mdy (no century and wrong date).
David,
Strictdate or other date settings has nothing to do with SDF date appending. Fox always expects SDF dates to be in YYYYMMDD format. If data doesn't respect this format then you should first take it as char then convert at your own or get data line by line with lowlevel functions, doing conversion on the fly.
Cetin