>>I am attempting to append to a DBF from an ASCII file in which the fields are delimited by the vertical bar (|).
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>>The command
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>>Append from Tabular.dat delim with |
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>>does not work; I get the first ten characters of the line in the first 10-character field, and that is it.
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>>I have sucessfully appended about a million times before, but those were always comma delimited or SDF files.
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>Hi Tina,
>use:
>Append from Tabular.dat delim with character |

That returned "command contains unrecognized phrase/keyword".