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>This app I'm working on is actually changing the DBF extension. Files are HBP
>(Help Builder Project) and then have an association in the registry, so you
>can double click in Explorer and startup the app. Works nicely, but making
>the non-dbf extension work is not as smooth as it should be.
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>You still end up with FPT/CDX files, but that's not as obvious especially if FoxPro dev isn't installed <s>...

Rick,

I understand where you're coming from here.

I wish that FoxPro would simply replace the last letter of the extension with the letter "T" to meno files. Back in FPW, if you had a report you needed to print to a TXT file, if you had a DOS version of the report in the same file, you could simply open it as a table and:

COPY TO WHATEVER.FRX FOR PLATFORM = "DOS"

and the memo file would have an FRT extension. Then could print to the file using the standard REPORT FORM command with the TO (filename).

My point is that, if you use COPY TO.. with the other standard file extension, you get a memo file with the appropriate extension, one with a "T" as the last character if the extensions are standard VFP. In your case, wouldn't it be nice if you could use COPY TO with an HBX extension and the memo file end up with HBT? And with the PRODUCTION keyword the index with HDX?

Just a thought.