>Hi Naomi,
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>> >Do you know how to work with DBF files that have more than 255 fields? I suspect they are Clipper files, but I'm not certain.
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>Is this a one time conversion, or do you want to access the file directly? Are you accessing the file at the same time as another application?
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>For a one time conversion, you could split the file with VFP's file function. Aside from the header this is a fixed length format, which makes it relatively easy. You would need to determine the size of the header, though.

It was not actually my problem, but someone's from MSDN forum whom I tried to help. This person doesn't have VFP installed and tried to access these files with VFP OleDB. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1998891&SiteID=1