Dorris,

That's the way I remember it too.

But a wonder what a "line delimited text file" is?? I suppose SDF is a good guess, but who can say for sure?

Cheers,
Jim N

>>I do the same way but isn't it "DELIMITED" or "WITH dilimiter" instead of "SDF"?
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>If I'm remembering correctly ('cuz I'm too lazy to look it up)
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>Append from filename DELIMITED means there is a a CR/LF at the end of each line and a (default) comma between field items.
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>Append from filename TYPE SDF means that the file is a flat ASCII file laid out with a fixed length with a CR/LF at the end of each line.