The table content is pretty straightforward. It start with either US or FR. I am now taking it apart by reading the file into a string...works like a charm. Who needs DbaseIV ;-)

Thanks for the low-level suggestion. I will also look at this website.

Ron
>I wonder if that DBFviewer application would work for this?
>http://www.dbf2002.com/
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>>You could copy the DB$ DBF to a TXT delimited file and then append them to your VFP DBFs.
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>>If this will be a recurring process you might need some kind of DbaseIV intermederary. DO you have a dBaseIV license?
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>>>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.
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