Hi Tore

>I don't think you can avoid it.

Well, this is the place to find out for certain. ;)

Thanks!
>
>>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?