HOW in the HECK can we import comma quote delimted ASCII !!!????

I cannot find out how to import comma quote delimited text into Informix if my life depended on it. We looked at dbload and got it to work ONLY after converting our comma quote delimited ascii text file to single character limited ascii text with much labor. comma quote delimited ascii is very much a standard data format. There MUST be a way to import comma quote delimited text into informix, but I sure could not find it ! See we are trying to import dbaseIII and paradox files into informix by first converting them to the WORLD STANDARD of comma quote delimited ascii text, but informix's dbload seems to only allow importation of ascii text that is delimited with a SINGLE character. Please tell us this is NOT so. Thanks in advance, root@TeamInfinity.com (Eric Sean Webber)