>>I am trying to append data from various files of varioius formats. for now: dbf, txt, cvs and txt.
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>Just curious...whats a cvs file?

er CSV - one of the COPY TO / APPEND FROM formats

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>>I have tried using
>>SET FIELDS TO ALL EXCEPT PKAD
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>>but the APPEND FROM command seams to ignore it.
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>>APPEND FROM (LCFILNAM) FIELDS ALL EXCEPT PKAD
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>Try APPEND FROM (LCFILNAM) FIELDS EXCEPT PKAD
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I get error #10 "Syntax error." Can you give an example?