>>>>For ME, of course, I'd like an easy way of cloning the structure of a DBC to a new and empty one.
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>>>Gendbc.prg ships with VFP. Run it on a dbc, and it creates a progrmmatic definition of your dbc. Must have exclusive access to dbc to use it though.
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>>note that GENDBC will not always work with big databases
>>there is a free tool called GENDBCX (sorry forgot the URL) that doesn't suffer from this limitation
>
>I've run into this (error: program too large), but always thought that VFP just had something against me personally. :-)

VFP has a limit of 64K per procedure
which the GENDBC doesn't enfore

the URL for GenDBCX btw is http://www.stevearnott.com/index.asp?MainPage=GenDBCX

Arnon