I worked with dBaseII since version 1.0 (?) for CPM, when you only could use two tables at once. I was able to build surprisingly advanced applications still. However I must confess that I don't remember when memo fields were added. Anyway, I am 99.99% sure that you should be able to read the old table directly from VFP. I hope you are able to fix the headers.

>I believe you are confusing dBASE II with dBASE III. Big difference. dBASE II had no memo fields. However, I do believe that VFP should be able to read them and it looks like someone did something with these files that trashed the headers. So... Off I go with low level file reading.
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>By the way, I still have my original 8 inch CPM dBASE II floppy around here somewhere from 1983 I believe. It's how I got started in this business.
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>Thanks everyone for the input.
>John
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>>VFP will read these files without any problems. If memo fields are involved, VFP will convert them, I seem to remember that it's the same for mdx files (dBase version of cdx index files) . In other words, most likely you won't be able to use the files from dBase afterwards.
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>>>Hi folks,
>>>I can't believe someone just gave me a set of dBASE II tables. I don't have anything that will read them anymore. Can anyone point me to something that will? Even if I can just export to text would be a start. I know I could write a prg using fopen and fread and decipher the headers then read them but that would take more time than the job is paying.
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>>>Thanks,
>>>John.