I have a .txt file from a separate program that uses a comma delimiter - perfect for the `read` command, except that the document is quite large, and using this ends up taking an awful long time to process.

I can `BULK INSERT` with a SQL Server Stored Procedure in about 15 seconds, but the source file escapes commas sometimes. Which messes up field identification. Neither `BULK INSERT` nor bcp can work out escaped commas.

Is there a way to have the DF windows application create a copy of the .txt file where the comma *delimiters* are replaced with tabs (but not the escaped ones) or to access command line functionality to tell Windows to get MS Excel to do the same or something like that?