>I'm in the process of converting my 2.x programs to VFP 5.
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>Am I right in thinking that I have to design forms with free tables instead of a database since those same tables are still being used by 2.x users?

It would be better if you could avoid it, because lack of dbc functionality will keep your VFP apps limited. If one-time conversion is out of question, then you can consider writing backward (e.g. dbc-triggers ) utilities which will update old fox tables when users will make changes in new tables.