>Hi Dorin
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>>You can use Tools\cpzero\cpzero.prg for this
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>I did read about in the help when I was looking for a way to change the code page, any advantage to using this prg? cause COPY TO is a simple line to execute and overwrite file
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>UPDATE: I tried it on a dbf and it made the CP to 0
>

You can pass new codepage as second parameter

do cpzero with "{dbf}",{codepage}

I've done this with all forms and class libraries, because long properties corruption bug ( _memberdata in most cases)