Evelyn,

If that's the only program inserting into the table at the time it'd be ok. But _tally is probably the best solution. You can also count the number of lines in the raw file:

create cursor linecount ( c(1) )
append from ...
? reccount()

>hi, i have that same code in my program, thought it wasn't a good idea to get reccount() then subtract it to the reccount() after append.