>Dawa,
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>Yes, you should be able to read the raw dBase data all day long. VFP can't use their MDX indexes so you are pretty much reduced to using full SCANs or SQL SELECTs to look at the data.
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>I'd refrain from updating or inserting any new data into the dBase tables from VFP. It would cause index corruption on the dBase side. You may be able to find an ODBC driver that would let you write to the dBase tables.
The data exchange only requires one record in each table in which case index is not necessary. Other that index corruption, do you see any other problem that might arise?
Do you know of a place where I can download demo/free version of dBase IV db engine?
Dawa Tsering
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