>>>I asked why you said that it's safer to export to text and then import the data in Clipper...
>>>
>>if you export to foxbase, since clipper doesnot handle indexs
>>for clipper, then you have to rebuild indexes. if you export
>>to text & then append in clipper with indexs in use, the clipper
>>indexes will be handled automatically.
>
>I guess there's some confusion here...
>I thought that Tom wanted to access data from both Clipper and VFP. If that's the case, then it's better to use CDX's unless he has a ODBC driver for NTX's (wich I don't know).

yes there is should say "vfp doesnot handle clipper ntx files"
and i assume that both systems are operational and will continue
to be so!