Only because nobody knows any better around here. Accessing legacy DBF files in VB6 or newer is considered a "black art" that not many people have done and if they have done it they don't remember how it worked. I have been a FP developer for years but have no experience with accessing the files via VB. Do you have any code snippets we could use? Our developer was using the following:

Set dbsCurrent = DBEngine.Workspaces(0).OpenDatabase(sDataFilePath, _
False, False, "dBase III;")
Set rsData = dbsCurrent.OpenRecordset(sFile)

where sDataFilePath is the folder name and sFile is the file name.

Larry

>Why are you using the dBase III ODBC driver instead of the VFP ODBC driver or even better, the VFP OLEDB Provider?
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