Hey Chris,
In Clipper you can't expand the whole command, try this:
lccmnd = '"incoming.txt" DELIMITED WITH '+CHR(96)
append from &lccmnd &&(you may need to break it down further)
(if you don't have it solved yet, I'll send more info from home tonite)
>lccmnd='APPEND FROM "incoming.txt" DELIMITED WITH CHARACTER '+CHR(96)
>* then macro expand the variable to append from the file
>* EVAL(lccmnd) ?
>* &(lccmnd) ?
>* &lccmnd ?
-michael
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