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SUMMARYThe at sign ("@") cannot be used as a delimiter in FoxPro versions 2.5 and 2.6 for MS-DOS and Windows when you are using the APPEND command to append information from an ASCII text file. MORE INFORMATION
A number of UNIX-based products such as EMPRESS generate ASCII files using
@ signs as delimiters. The following is an example of an ASCII file
generated by EMPRESS version 6.0 running on a Sun Microsystems SPARC
workstation:
However, when you use @ as a delimiter with the APPEND command, as in the following example
(where the <Text_Filename> is the name of the ASCII file), FoxPro will not recognize the @ sign as a delimiter and will try to include each record from the ASCII file in the first field of the FoxPro .DBF file. To correct this problem:
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