This is my text file...

1Test Point|||C|Y|||H|||
ID|TP106||C|Y|||T|||
LOC|EAST END OF THE RIVER||C|Y|||T|||
ROUTE|COMPLIANCE||C|Y|||T|||
DATE|DATE()||D|Y|||T|||
TIME|TIME()||T|Y|||T|||
STRUC IRF||1.083|V1|N|20mV||M|||
CASE PS||1.759|V1|N|20mV||M|||
CASE IRF||1.023|V1|N|20mV||M|||
INSUL PS||1.650|V1|N|20mV||M|||
INSUL IRF||1.295|V1|N|20mV||M|||
UDF1||.865|V2|N|20mV||M|||
RTNUM|2||CH|Y||||||
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This is my command...

lcfile="incoming.txt"
lcchar="|"
APPEND FROM &lcfile DELIMITED WITH &lcchar

It's putting the first line of the text file in the first field of the first record of the table, and that's it. If you're seeing what I'm not, please let me know...