>The table is not corrupt. When you set the code page, it changed the header to a VFP header. That's a no-no. You can COPY TO TYPE FOX2X to get the data back, but don't every make any type of structure change. You can add, delete, and update the data in VFP, but nothing else.

Neither setting code page nor changing structure of a table in VFP doesn't change table type unless the structure change uses new VFP data features, like integer fields, e.t.c.