Before allowing foxpro to tell excel to write a dbf file, I had written
in the names of the fields in the first row of the excel file, so I knew
what the structure of the dbf file would be that excel would write. I often
do this. The data stays the same as it was in excel, and sure foxpro can
open the table. But, in this instance, I wonder if the table excel is writing
might still be bad in some way