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>Clipper allows for up to 1024 fields per table. If I try to open the table in question with VFP (3.0) it says that it isn't a valid table.

Sheesh! I worked with Clipper for over 5 years and never new that. Well maybe I did at one point or another and just forgot. I sometimes suffer from CRS.

Anyway... I don't think that you are going to be able to do anything with that table unless you convert it to some ODBC compliant table. Again, IMHO, a table with over 255 columns, is a lot.