>>Whoops, the following isn't right:

>>* This is wrong
>>APPEND FROM (m.textfile) SDF
>>* This is right
>>APPEND FROM (m.textfile) <b>TYPE</b> SDF

>>Doh!
>
>It worked anyway... from the VFP doc:
>
>Although you must specify a file type if the file you are appending from isn't a Visual FoxPro table, you need not include the TYPE key word.
>
>Thanks again,

Hi BOb,

And thank you for the heads up. Just goes to show what can happen when you don't RT*M carefully< g >. It says basically the same thing in the 2.6 help file.