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>>I ran your test with FoxPro 2.6a for DOS (on a Windows 95 machine) and got correct results, i.e. the century was correct even after the APPEND.
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>How were the date fields formatted in the txt file?
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>BOb
They were formatted as YYYYYMMDD.
Rick Borup, MCSD
recursion (rE-kur'-shun) n.
see recursion.