Hi Dragan

Thank you so much for your reply.
I have no problem coding for the psion or linking the problem
is that when i send a file to the pc it is in an unreadable format.
I have program that is called dbconvert which converts the file
to a flat text file. The problem comes when i append it to a
vfp table. The first field is fine, but from there onwards the
fields all have a /t in front of the field which in vfp table
look like this -> "|".

got any suggestions as to get rid of this pipe sign?

Thanks
Fida Shamsoodeen