>Hi,
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>I have exported some data from a program developed in Omnis into dBase format (this was the choice on their export utility). The files created by the export utility are of format .DBF/.DBT. When I try to open any of these tables in VFP 9 I get message "Duplicate field names". I tried to open these tables in dBase III but I get message "not a dBase database"
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>Any suggestions on how to open these files?

As far as I know, for dBase version 2 files, VFP can open it even with duplicate field names, and allow to browse. But anyway VFP will not be able to work with this table.
I would try to open dBase file in Excel, convert it to appropriate format and/or fix field names.