>Hi All,
> I know that this has been discussed many times, but I do not have the premier account at the moment and need someone to please point me to the threads with solutions on how to get the data out of these files or shrink the files so that VFP can open them.
>
>Thanks In Advance.
>Beth

you can open these files with parserat. After that you can reduce any useless fields (any text field) size and save. If you cannot reduce any field, parse your dbf files fields at two dbf file. And you can open your .dbf with foxpro... :)

http://www.guysoftware.com/parserat.htm