>>>Hye,
>>>
>>>how to do encrypt a free table?
>>>
>>>Gerry
>>
>>There are several third-party tools that can help you with that; look at www.hallogram.com.
>>
>>On the other hand, if you need this kind of features, which is not built-in into Visual FoxPro, you might also consider some client-server solution - most database servers can hide their data from prying eyes.
>
>I have always wondered why this was never built in.


Several reasons.
Lack of standards at the early time that the DBF format came out.
Lack of resources in a small VFP Team
and a cynical person would also say lack of corporate desire to add another reason to compete with SQL Server.