Joe,

VFP7, VFP6, and probably VFP5 for that matter, does not have this limitation. You can even import files with spaces in the file name:

append from ("a very long file name.txt") type delimited

>Can VFP 7.0 support a filename longer than 8.3 when importing? Didn't this used to be the old standard in VFP 5.0?
>
>TIA!