>I have some Free tables from Visual FoxPro 5. Now when I used them and added them to Visual FoxPro 9 Database it displays a warning the dbf file will be updated to new format, making unreadable to previous version of FoxPro.
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>I want to get rid of this warning message and don't want and user interference when I automated the upgrade.
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>SET SAFETY OFF
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>doesn't work here.

Try with SET TABLEPROMPT OFF.

No, just realized it would not work as well. May be SET TABLEVALIDATE TO 0?