Hey, O wise ones!

I've taken over a FPW program from someone who was APPENDing in an Excel Spreadsheet (XLS) into a Fox table. It's been brought forward to VFP 5 (using SBT -- gotta stay with 5), but the following APPEND statement gives me an error:

APPEND FROM (ALLTRIM(lc_file)) TYPE XLS

The error is:
OLE Error code 0x80030002 %1

Should there be some kind of Code Page manipulatin going on here? I've never had to work with CPs, so I don't know.

Thanks in advance, those with more knowledge than I ...