>>>>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".
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>>The nice thing about dBase II was in was “a relational database”. Yes sir, that is what it was advertised as. Why you could actually open two tables at a time! Imagine that? Table A, and table B. You could never have more than two tables open at a time though. I got my copy in December 1981.
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>>My copy of Wordstar was version 0.92. I remember all the combinations of control keys to do anything. ^KS
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>I was editing cobol files in it, on CP/M, and had trouble explaining to few others that they should open and save them files in non-document mode (funny name for plain text, eh?), because all those formatting marks won't compile... Not that I understood that myself right on, took me a week to understand what was it that I keep forgetting sometimes. Ah, damn non-document! Why is it not the default? Grrrr.

Yes, formatting was fun! :)