>You mean that you try to open a FPD table with VFP, and you get rubbish? If so, the table is corrupted!
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>A normal FPD table can be opened without any problems with VFP. But, you can NOT open a VFP table with FPD, unless you only use "old" field types.

It seem your languages dos and windows codepages not different. You're lucky... :)