>I developed a small serching application for an insurance company that uses a table with extremely private information about my company and relations with our customers/members. I send out an updated table each week that is used to refresh the existing information in the table. Is there a way to protect this table from being accessed or read by another package. Even though we have an agreement with this company to keep the information private and not to access for other uses, I fear that my company information in this table is at risk of being used for other purposes not intended for this application. Is there a way (with VFP) to protect this data from being accessed from outside of the application?
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>Thanks for any suggestions.
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John,

Add the dbf to your project, click on it and choose Include from the project menu, then build the exe. Don't send the dbf to the insurance company because it is built into the exe. The dbf will be read only and will not be available to any other app except the exe it is built into.