>>>To be straight about it: A simple yes (compatibility issue), yes (instruct users), yes (use other methods) is okay with me. Afterall, the documentation explicitly claims support only for the older formats.
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>>It's a pretty obvious yes, yes, yes.
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>>But I don't get why it seems so unusual to you. A Foxpro/DOS application will throw an error when trying to open a DBF that was created in VFP that is part of a DBC.
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>>It's a newer file format than the existing application could possibly have known about. Do you expect Microsoft to update Foxpro/DOS to support newer file formats?
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>>This is exactly the same issue. IMPORT (and APPEND FROM) haven't been kept current for many years because better interop methods exist than hard-coded interpretations of file formats.
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>>Where's the big deal?
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>Foxpro/DOS has reached the end of its lifecycle. VFP has not (right?). That's why it is not the same issue. What I suggested in my reply (you may have missed that, because I wrote that in an update), is that it is made clear that it is rather only the IMPORT command that has come to the end of its lifecycle. If that is confirmed, then I suggest this is explicitly stated in its documentation with the next SP.

Peter,
May I ask not to CC on this subject please. My opinion is clear. I do not use IMPORT, never suggested it to be used, do not see it as a big deal. Even before I always suggested not to use IMPORT.
Thanks.
Cetin