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From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: D:Base Import
Message-ID: <40063@cup.portal.com>
Date: 12 Mar 91 20:53:31 GMT
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If your program doesn't save a file in dBase format (.dbf) then have it
save in 'delimited ASCII' format and you can import it using the 
'APPEND FROM' command.  Type will be either SDF (for files with every
record ending in <CR><LF>, every record (line) the same length. Or
type will be DELIMITED where commas go between every field and strings
are surrounded with quotes.  You can't import header information this
way so you must have an empty file to put the data into.  

The point is that you can't use the 'IMPORT' command to do this.

Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com