Jonathan,
W/o knowing file content this might end up with one 200 chars record.
Cetin

>Try this:
>1) Create a table with one field type character lenght 200
>2) open the table
>3) type this: append from e:\bigfile.txt delimited with tab
>
>It´s done!!!
>
>
>
>>Running on Win2K-AS/SP2 with 256mb of physical RAM and 1.6gb of pagefile.
>>
>>I have an 880-megabyte text file. The following code in VFP7/SP1 gives me the error "There is not enough memory to complete this operation".
>>

>>Clear
>>? Datetime()
>>cc = FileToStr("e:\bigfile.txt")
>>? Datetime()
>>

>>What can I do? I must load this file.