Andrew Stapleton suggested that the previous line could end in a ; and could cause a problem. That could be

I had a thought too, maybe you have overridden one of the command keywords with a #DEFINE, perhaps in an include file.

With this code:

#define tab Chr(9)
append from (lcFile) type delimited with tab

I get the error "Command contains unrecognized phrase/keyword."

Defining tab as Chr(9) seems like something logical to try...


>>One more thought...
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>>lcCommand = "APPEND FROM " + lcFile + "DELIMITED WITH TAB"
>>= EVAL(lcCommand)
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>>By the way... What is in lcFile?
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>This doesn't explain why it wouldn't work in the original form, but it's a great work-around. Thanks!