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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
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>They were formatted as YYYYYMMDD.
Sorry, I typed one too many Y's. It's an 8-character string, YYYYMMDD. It's what you get when you "COPY TO Tmp.TXT TYPE SDF" (from Christof's program), or use the DTOS function.
Rick Borup, MCSD
recursion (rE-kur'-shun) n.
see recursion.