True. I suppose you could use the RUN command, then find it's window-handle and send a bunch of keystrokes...hahaha...

>It looks like it will. If the viewer can be automated that would be great. But if it cannot be automated, then you would have to do it manually.
>
>With a little dBaseIV exe you could RUN the EXE from you VFP program without having to go in and out of the viewer.
>
>

*VFP wouyld look like this
>RUN myDB4TODB3 && Note cannot use the /N because VFP will continue to execute
>               && even though file parse is not complete
>*the dBaseIV code  would look like this:
><pre>
>*myDB4TODB3.PRG - a dBaseIV EXE
>USE mydBaseIV.DBF
>copy to mydBaseIII.DBF TYPE DBMEMO3 && Now the memo fields are db3
>USE
>QUIT
>* Execution is returned to VFP
>USE myVFPDBF
>APPEND FROM mydBAseIII.DBF

>
>But ....
>You should check the VFP help system for SYS(2029), APPEND FROM and the USE command (that has a DB4 to VFP converter).
>
>>I wonder if that DBFviewer application would work for this?
>>http://www.dbf2002.com/
>>
>>>You could copy the DB$ DBF to a TXT delimited file and then append them to your VFP DBFs.
>>>
>>>If this will be a recurring process you might need some kind of DbaseIV intermederary. DO you have a dBaseIV license?
>>>
>>>
>>>>I need to extract data from a very old system that stores its data in Dbase 4. Although I can open the tables without any problems in VFP9/8/6, FPW2.6 and FPD2 (I still have all these versions) none of the programs is showing me the real contents.
>>>>