Hi Mike,

1. create a cursor with the correct structure, but have a dummy character field in stead of a date field, and add a date field with the correct name at the end.
2. Import from your textfield
3. replace all datefield with ctod(yourdummyfield)
4. import from the cursor


>Hi Beth
>
>Yep. Tried that. Didn't work.
>
>Thanks!
>>Hi, Mike,
>> Do you have set century on?
>>>Hi all
>>>
>>>Given a text file with 11/12/1987 and a dbf with a single date field, APPEND FROM results in 11/12/19 in the date field.
>>>
>>>What must I do to have APPEND FROM import that date correctly?