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

Try using "|" on the end.