>>There's 792,502 records in this file. Is there a way to append only a few of the records for testing purposes?
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>For future reference, you can start the APPEND FROM ... SDF then hit the escape key to stop the process instead of waiting to append all the records. [assuming of course, you have not SET ESCAPE OFF]. This works for me, at least.

Escape didn't work, so it must have been off. I'm so used to having it on on my computer that I didn't think to check if it was on.

Thanks,

-Michelle