>Thanks so much guys for your input.
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>Mark, I was just going to start fiddling around with the odbc drivers and see if I could get any kind of connection to these files. The only way I've been able to get anything from it, is by creating a new view that contains all the fields I need, then exporting it as a lotus worksheet, then saving this worksheets as excel files and finally importing them into VFP tables so I can manipulate their data structure. Ultimately, we want to transport all this data plus the fixed data structure into MSFT SQL 7.0, but I wonder if I'm not asking for more trouble...

That is as good a plan as any. Keep in mind you can APPEND FROM and Import Lotus files directly [at least in VFP 6].