Sergey,
Sorry. I should have read the help for sys(2029) as you suggested.
I see now that the table is dBaseIV. Do they still sell it? <g>
>You can determine the type of the table with following code (which is similar to VFP sys(2029))
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lcTable = "mytable"
>lcPath = "C:\myfolder\"
>lnFH = FOPEN(lcPath + lcTable + ".dbf", 12)
>lnByte1 = ASC(FREAD(lnFH,1))
>= FCLOSE(lnFH)
>? lnByte1, TRANSFORM(lnByte1, "@0")
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>>I got copies of tables that were maintained by Lotus Approach application. The tables have .DBF and .DBT extensions. And I actually saw a user accessing the tables from Lotus Approach but the message in the windows stating something like "dBase...".
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>>Yet, I cannot open these tables with dBase III.
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>>And when I try to open the tables in either VFP 6 or VFP 8 I get message asking if I want to convert the MEMO to VFP format. If I say yes, I can then open the table but all fields show garbage. That is, it is unreadable. Most data is shown as some high-ASCII characters. If I choose not to convert the memo to VFP format, the message says, "Cannot open table.".
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>>Any suggestions to how I can open these tables and view the data?
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