Another shot in the dark...
Take a good look at the word 'DELIMITED', is it spelled correctly?
Also try deleting the line of code totally and re-typing it over again. I've gotten weird invisible characters in the code in the past -- long time ago, but it happened.
Just a thought...
>Dear Fox Users,
>
>When I am using this command in Form's method:
>
>CREATE CURSOR eub525 (cid C(5), fmtnr C(2), name C(50), data C(30))
>SELECT eub525
>
>APPEND FROM test.dat TYPE DELIMITED WITH TAB
>
>On APPEND FROM... line I am getting an error message 'Command contains unrecognized phrase/keyword'
>
>When I try to run those command from command window everything is OK
>
>Maybe somebody knows this problem.
>
>Please hellp!
>
>Juozas
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