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COPY TO will create a free table. Note, however, that all the triggers will be lost and all field name longer than 10 characters will be truncated.
HTH
>I read in a Visual FoxPro book that there is a COPY command that will copy a .DBF file and the resultant copied .DBF file becomes independent of its originating database (resulting in a free table?).
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>Would that be the COPY FILE command or the COPY TO command?
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>What I am trying to do is take a .DBF file that I created on a stand-alone PC, PKZIP it using VFP, file transfer it to a server via modem using VFP, PKUNZIP it using VFP, then merge it into an exisiting VFP database using some kind of batch processing idea or maybe a Remote View?
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>I have everything working except the file transfer via modem (init, dialing, etc. from VFP using CommTool 3.0 VFP add-on from Avanti Software) and the merge portion. I think I can use a Remote View for merging, but I thought if I did a COPY command I could make the table a free table and that would be even easier than a view.
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>I guess what I really want to know is how to make a .DBF that is part of a .DBC a free table, not associated with the .DBC any longer.
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