I consider a flat file basic text that does not have the extensive header that a DBF would have. Nor does a flat file usually have associated CDX and FPT files.

I guess that was my point. Sure I can get a comma delimited flat file with proper data and THAT would be a flat file. The only way to access that data is read it sequentially and strip out data records I need. A DBF allows much more.

It could be a case of what you consider a "flat file". I'm not going to argue over symantics.

Have a good one.

Alan Wyne