>Dragan, >My problem is that I don't have a cobol-compiler; the source; the structure >of the file. >It is just a file that my customer has on his system; and I've told him to >switch to VFP... > >I have send a file attached with some articles with an E-mail. The strange >thing (to me) is that there are is some extra info between the data; I >would else write something wit FOPEN... The extra info between the data may be index blocks (I've seen some designs like that), or the table has the last field of variable length string type. I've not received the file yet - once I get it, I'll give it a try. If there's a way you may capture a page or two of some ASCII report done from the file, and include it with the file (.zip or .arj, please), it'd be some help as to control the resulting table. It may consist of fields like num1, num2 etc, since we know nothing of the original structure, so the field names can be only imaginary. If it works, you get the source you can run against the big table - if possible, send me a smaller sample, say - a few hundred records. My phone line is a mess, so I try to minimize online time. ndragan@sezampro.yu