>I have developed an app in VFP 5.0. A third party wants to read and write to fields in one of my tables (I set aside fields for him to do so). However, his application is a 16 bit app, and he claims his ODBC drivers will not work. Any ideas ????
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>Thanks in advance for any help !

To add to what Ed said, there is at least one safe way not to touch a free table from VFP: consider it remote data and access it with VFP ODBC driver through a connection. You will end up building a remote view in your DBC, you'll never touch the structure of the table and the third party will be able to write to it with a 16bit driver.

José