>>>Nadya,
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>>>The FOR clause on APPEND FROM acts on the source of the append not the target.
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>>Exactly what I was thinking. So, where VFP allows you to perform some checks on the data, it won't be able to evaluate stuff like Recno(). Now I think of it, this will be the same as FOR NOT DELETED() won't work (never thought of it this way ;).
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>FOR ! DELETED() works when importing a DBF file; RECNO() is a problem, since the file isn't open to give it an alias to reference.

Ed,

This was solved by some SP I recall ... ?? otherwise I dreamed. Sorry then.

Peter


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>>Knowing this, it can be solved by having a nRecno field in the source table (obviously equal to Recno()) and you will be able to test for that (with WHILE if possible) ...