You can do it natively but if you are able to create a new table--and I am assuming you can since you included the COPY TO command--you could SET TALK ON and do a SELECT INTO. If the query is going to take some time VFP with throw up a progress bar for you.
>How do I display a progressbar when doing an APPEND FROM textfile or COPY TO?
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>Thanks
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