Hi Rick,
Thanks for the kick start. I never cease to amaze myself at my ability to make things several times harder then they need to be.

Thanks again
Jim


>Jim,
>APPEND FROM ... TYPE SDF
>
>Rick
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I see in the help file how to convert a delimited text file but how do I convert a fixed length field text file to a VFP 6.0 table?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Jim