I have been attempting to import recently released 2000 Census data (http://ftp2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/PUMS/FivePercent/) into a Fox table. There seems to be no utility for importing text data in VFP 6 or 7. I have managed to import some of the smaller states into Access and export to a dBase IV file. However, Access seems to choke on the larger files. For example, the California data is in a text file that is in excess of 600MB and contains in excess of 3,000,000 records. Each record contains 165 fixed width fields, is 317 bytes wide, and has a funky End of Record delimiter. Access seems to choke on the size of the California data, whereas, it seems to handle files of < 500,000 records quite easily. My puter has 1GB of RAM and plenty of free hard drive to page. Any ideas as to how I might import this into Fox or Access or any other program so that I can ultimately get it into Fox? I have tried importing to SQL Server 2000. However, I can't get it to recognize the EOR delimiter (Access does recognize the delimiter) and give me the proper record length.

Any ideas??
TIA
Jim