>>>and then VFP will divide text file according to table (cursor) structure, therefore you should have:
>>>1. Exact length corresponding between table and text file.
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>>I was afraid that's what your response was going to be!
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>That's not a serius obstacle:
>1. Create 'import cursor' with the exact structure.
>2. Append to this cursor.
>3. Append to real table from cursor using APPEND FROM ... FIELDS ... and/or some kind of SELECT-SQL commands.

And to throw my two cents in, it's not really that painful - we do that all the time. It's just like specifying a map of the original fixed length file.

For that matter, depending on your needs, you can either define a permanent table in advance, ZAPping is before the APPEND, or create a cursor on the fly.