Hi Colin ---

>I am USEing a free table and its IDX's, built back in the FoxPro 1.02 days, in a VFP app. The trouble I'm encountering is that VFP is setting some of the IDXs type to Candidate instead of Regular. How can I prevent this to ensure that the IDX's are opened as Regular? TIA

I have not worked with FP 1 tables in VFP, but is it trying to convert IDX files to CDX tags? If so, are these UNIQUE indexes? Standalone indexes cannot be anything but regular or unique; they cannot be Candidates.