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Modifying the structure of a DBF
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30/03/2006 14:38:41
Mike Yearwood
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
FoxPro 2.x
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
FoxPro Windows
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01109318
Message ID:
01109320
Views:
21
>Is there a way to programatically change the structure of a
>FoxPro 2.6 DBF?
>I need to add 2 fields to a pre-existing table.
>When I do this manually it takes 20 minutes (because of the table size, and number of memo fields)
>
>I have other things I need to do to the DBF after I've modified the structure, and all of those things I can do programatically...
>I'd like to modify the structure programatically, so I can start the program and come back 30 minutes later... instead of baby-sitting it.
>
>TIA,
>Rick

CREATE TABLE filename (existing fields, newFieldName newdatatype(newfieldsize))
append from oldtable
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