>You can create a temp dbc and then in step 1 "copy ... to {tablename} database {temp dbc}", so step 3 becomes unnecessary and you don't lose long field names.

I dont use dbc and long names.

This maintenande program also fixes dbf and fpt corruption if original dbf
cannot opened and recovers data from dbf/fpt as much as possible using low level read and write.
Code from Les Pinter book is used for this.

This code works only with fox2x dbf files. If switching to new table stucture,
this repairing routine stops working: if founds that table is not dbf file and creates
new empty file destroying all data in all tables.
I dont have code which can repair/fix dbc/vfp dbf files automatically like
Pinter routine does for fox2 files.