Hi Tore

That's the workaround I already have in place. I'm hoping to avoid that.

>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?