>>>I have several apps running that process tables of several million records. I chose FoxPro because it had the fastest db engine available. My apps regularly post several 100,000 record files in text format using low level file functions to a VFP .dbf of 1.8 million records.
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>>>"30,000 Records?" You won't have time to get a cup of coffee before VFP has processed your records, up, down, sideways and backwards!
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>>>>I want to import a text file that has about 30,000 records
>>>>into vfp50. Can visual foxpro handle 30,00 or maybe 100,00
>>>>records? thanks
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>>thanks Steffen for your answer.. with your text file, are you using APPEND FROM to post to the vfp dbf file? I want to move a text file (using a low level file
>>functions) to a vfp dbf file. Could you show me some code?..thanks again..rob
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>if you really want to use low level file functions to do this, you are either crazy or wanting to pad your billable hours. what does the help for append from tell you to do?

Hi Dave... have not heard form you in a while..hope you are feeling ok..and..
I can see by your reply that you have not had your coffee yet...
As fas as append from mytextfile... or using low level functions, I just
like to know all the options...it is always best to know how to do something two or three different ways...thanks