A user reported problems with appending files which were exported from Excel as Dbase (dbf)
I suggest you export as csv instead since some of the DBF files Excel creates are NOT of the correct format. An alternative could be to try different DBF formats (dbaseII DbaseIII DbaseIV)
Some mails to the list regarding this problem were sent as HTML. The list will from today convert such mails to text format. But it is preferable that mails to the list are sent as plain text, since these mails are shorter - a nice gesture to persons with slow modem lines.
In some mail programs, e.g. Thunderbird http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ which is a freeware programme one can define which type of mails a certain receiver of mails can read.
Jens Lauritsen EpiData Association