beginners question : how to import textfiles into databases

Sorry for this really stupid question, but we haven't got the manuals yet (the machine is only on trial. Once the decision to buy it has been made (which will surely happen, only I don't know when (I'm the one working with it, so I have no say in purchase decisions ;-)) we'll get the paper truck... until then this newsgroup is my only resort Here goes : how can I, using the dbimport tool get some tab-delimited text-file data into my database ? (the file comes over from PC access database) all I get is $ dbimport Usage: dbimport <database> [-X] [-c] [-q] [-d <dbspace>] [-l [{ buffered | <log-file> }] [-ansi]] [{ -i <dir> | -t <tapedev> [ -b <blksz> -s <tapesz> ] [-f <script-file>] }] NOTE: <log-file> must be a complete path arguments to dbimport are order independent and when trying harder : $ dbimport customerCannot open sql script file anyone a suggestion for me ? thanks jeroen jeroen@hypervision.be