>> Hi Dragan... thanks for your answer.. I got the below code
>> from my friend JP on the UT...When you can not use APPEND FROM...
>> try this....rob
>>
>> PARAMETERS lcTapeFile
>
>Yes, I think I saw it. I'm (unfortunately) writing things like that for
>six good years in Fox (two more years I had to revert to Pascal,
>Mfoxplus had no LL functions). That's what we call "the creative work of
>data conversion". The nicest one I've ever done was an EBCDIC file
>converted to ASCII on the mainframe, but unfortunately it converted the
>numerics too, so I had to write a ascii-back-to-ebcdic conversion so I
>was able to unpack the numbers. Later it came out that most of the data
>were bad in the original version - stale credits (90% paid off), wrong
>codes, mistypings. Finally we dropped it all and had the girls retype
>from papers. They did it in two days, and the whole thing took me three.
>
>Experiences like that made me write "Conversion rules" for my
>programmers. Rule #1: avoid conversion if possible. #2: have sense of
>proportion.

hi Dragan...thanks for the input...rob