>is there any tool to encrypt the .dbf?
>
>I'm using VFP 8 with native .dbf
>
>regards,
>
Jerry,

There are some 3rd party encryption tools that can do this for you. There's also the _crypt.vcx class.

How well you can adapt the latter to encrypting files is, at best, problematical. .NET has classes that can do this, and the class library supplied with VFP isn't very well written or documented as to how to change it.