>Nadya,
>
>The FOR clause on APPEND FROM acts on the source of the append not the target.

It's only true if the source is a table. Otherwise FOR is performed on the target table and the record in the memory right before it is inserted into target table. Here's the test to confirm that

CREATE TABLE temp ( c1 C(32))
APPEND FROM ( HOME()+"hlp2fox.prg") SDF
? _TALLY    && 85 records appended
ZAP
APPEND FROM ( HOME()+"hlp2fox.prg") SDF FOR RECNO() < 10
? _TALLY    && 9 records appended
ZAP
APPEND FROM ( HOME()+"hlp2fox.prg") SDF FOR RECCOUNT() < 10
? _TALLY    && 10 records appended