>Some applications such as MS Excel, Word etc. can open DBF free tables directly as long as they are in the old FOX2X format.
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>Is there a way to tell if a DBF free table is FOX2X or not, either before or after opening it in VFP?

header part of the table: first byte (perhaps word, too lazy to test) is table format, then lastchange, then reccount, headerlength, recordlenght AFAIR. Always thought that order would have been different if I had coded it . Was an easy way to "protect" my files from easy imports into dBase3+ and clones to create my special "dbf" format ;-))

Either test with a vfp table copied to that structure or hunt in old docs. I remember from days when having ModulaII and C++ libs R/W into that format and sometimes peeking at the sources