Hi Kevin.

>I think this is because the Btrieve files were created a long time ago by Dataflex for Btrieve, which used non-standard data definitions\

If I recall, older versions of Btrieve didn't support true date fields, so dates were stored as character or numeric values. Are you trying to put a VFP date value into a Btrieve character or numeric field that holds "date" values?

Doug