Thanks Susan
Unfortunatly this is not the same type of dat file you worked with in the past. It looks the same as if you would edit a stadard DBF file.

>>Hi there,
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>>I've got a couple of .DAT files, created by a Clarion app and I need to convert them to some format that will be accessible to FoxPro. I've been looking for ODBC drivers but as yet have not found any.
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>>The files are so small, I could even mail it to a person to quickly convert them to a desired format.
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>>If there's any other way to work with a Clarion data file, please let me know.
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>>I'm quite pressed for time so a quick reply will be greatly appreciated !
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>>Kind regards
>>Willie
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>I have worked with .Dat files in the past. First thing I always did was edit the files in wordpad to eliminate all the commas(,) between fields. Then I did an SQL Create table and created the table. Then I would execute the following:
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>Append from file.dat SDF
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>Hope this helps!