>>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

As I mentioned before, I heve very little information off these files. There are different reports availble; but all with different layout and different data. I have talked with my client and he told me not to bother : his secretary will retyp this file (and the extra info that now is availble in my project.
So you don't have to do anything anymore for this case.
But when I have an other client with COBOL files, I will contact you.
Thanks for your time !