CREATE CURSOR fubar (fname C(16), lname C(20), ; addr1 C(32), ; addr2 C(32), ; addr3 C(32), ; test d) TEXT TO lcFubar A,B,,,,1/1/2003 C,D,,,,2/02/2003 E,F,,,,3/12/2003 G,H,,,,10/12/2003 T,U,,,,11/2/2003 ENDTEXT STRTOFILE( lcFubar, "fubar.txt",0) APPEND FROM fubar.txt TYPE DELIMITED BROWSE NOWAIT>>IIRC, it's long standing bug or feature of APPEND TYPE CSV. You can use TYPE DELIMITED to avoid this problem
>>APPEND FROM fubar.txt TYPE DELIMITED>