Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!xylogics!merk!alliant!linus!linus!mbunix.mitre.org From: cazier@mbunix.mitre.org (Cazier) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: dBase dbf stru modify Message-ID: <116447@linus.mitre.org> Date: 8 Aug 90 15:45:53 GMT Sender: usenet@linus.mitre.org Distribution: usa Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA Lines: 4 Suppose I copy stru to test and then modi stru to fewer fields with the same field names and sizes. How do I append from the "fuller" .DBF to the modified .DBF just those fields with equal names and sizes? Is it required that I copy the specific data to another file "delimited" then append from delimited?