Seems you know something the rest are not aware of. Could you explain why a compiled app will need a recompile. We are talking just about the app.

I think in this scenario:

USE "pathtotable" 
GOTO BOTTOM
REPLACE aField WITH somedata

SEEK eInfo

IF FOUND()
     REPLACE nCount WITH nCount+1
ENDIF

I still can't see the need for recompile. VFP already supports in the runtime numbers bigger than 32 bits so it should not be an issue.