Yes, I know, that is the first way I tryed it. But if the only thing in that file is the date or dates (one per line) this should work just fine.
>Oops. I should have said the actual file has no delimiters. I'm using TYPE SDF.
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>>try (if you are using vfp6) append from (filename) TYPE DELIMITED. It worked for me just now.
>>>Hi Beth
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>>>Yep. Tried that. Didn't work.
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>>>Thanks!
>>>>Hi, Mike,
>>>> Do you have set century on?
>>>>>Hi all
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>>What must I do to have APPEND FROM import that date correctly?