one question rgd. the RENAME FIELD command: Does that, like the DROP FIELD command, apply to all tables unless some tablename is specified? If yes, how do I do so? I want to rename one field, but only in the one table I just loaded.
I haven't checked that in Detail, but it's probable that the table to concatenate to has a different nr. of fields. That also explains why the LOAD is optimized as soon as I separate it - in spite of the alias, as it should be ...