>>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.
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>Back then, the common cause of table (aka database) corruption was "edited with WordStar and saved".

Or if it was an advanced user, Lotus 1-2-3.