AFAIK, this "feature" only affect appending from a table, where the field on which the FOR part is based do not exist on the destination table.

>I have not experienced that! When I have run APPEND FROM with a FOR clause, it has worked correctly. For example, I used the following code to create a cursor of the Procedure/Function and Parameter statements from one of my procedure files:
>
>CREATE CURSOR Prg (Line C(254))
>APPEND FROM Mc_procs.Prg TYPE SDF ;
> FOR UPPER(LEFT(ALLTRIM(prg.line),4))=="PROC" ;
> OR UPPER(LEFT(ALLTRIM(prg.line),4))=="FUNC" ;
> OR UPPER(LEFT(ALLTRIM(prg.line),4))=="LPAR" ;
> OR UPPER(LEFT(ALLTRIM(prg.line),4))=="PARA"
>
>Perhaps using a cursor as the destination or the TYPE SDF has some effect, I don't know. Do you name the destination alias in the FOR clause that fails?? (BTW, I got help creating this code from Christof Lange)