You can change table structures in VFP as long as you do not introduce any VFP features. No need to copy them back to FOX2X. You can use SYS(2029) to make sure that table type didn't change.

The more I think about it, the more I think that I AM going to have to convert the legacy app to VFP because my framework uses autom-incrementing PKs and I sure don't wat to have to mess with all that old nasty legacy code. In my testing, the biggest problem I came up against is that the cursor came up behind the fields so the users had no clue where they were typing. I tried changing the picture clauses to use @K, but that only worked if there was data in the field. You see, the entire thing was done with @SAY and @GET - no use of the 2.x power tools at all. Do you know of any workaround for the "disappearing cursor goes behind the @GET field. If I could get around that, the conversion to VFP would not be such a problem.