>Hi,
>I need to appe a text file to a foxPro table. I am trying to do this with
>appe memo MyField from Text1.txt type sdf.
>This begins okay but each time I get the error message "end of File encountered."
>Could this mean that the text file has no eof() marker? I can get around this
>problem by importing the text1 file into Excel and then having excel write a new text
>file text2.txt. Then FoxPro can appe this text2.txt with no problem. However, is there a way
>for FoxPro to check for the presence of an eof() marker in text1.txt and add on it not there?
>Or is there another way for FoxPro to appe in this apparently offensive text file, low level
>file reading routines?
>Thanks
>Steve Elster

Steve,

Why don't you use FileToStr as in:

local lctext
use table1 
m.lctext = FileToStr("c:\abc.txt")
*Say field1 is your memo field
replace field1 with m.lcText in table1
use in table1

Dawa