Hi Dennis,

>Is it possible, via the COPY TO command, to export a table to a pipe-delimited text file that does *not* have quotes around the character fields? Some documentation indicates that it is possible. I never thought it was possible.

It's now possible in VFP 7

COPY TO mytxt.txt DELIMITED WITH "" WITH CHARACTER '|'

>However, I just discovered, much to my surprise, that the following command will import such a text file:
>
> APPEND FROM [file] DELI WITH _ WITH CHARACTER |
>
>That works contrary to my expectations. The text file that I am appending does *not* have character fields enclosed by an underscore.

It works because VFP doesn't require that field was inclosed in the specified delimiter. I think, it shoud work w/o delimiter specified

APPEND FROM [file] DELI WITH CHARACTER |