>Hello all,
>A friend of mine wants to get data from fox tables. He doesn't have VFP.
>Which tool or tools do you recommend to get access to VFP data. He want to import that data.
>Thanks in advance.

The file header data for a DBF is a simple struture:

* u8  = unsigned 8-bit integer
* u16 = unsigned 16-bit integer
* u32 = unsigned 32-bit integer


struct STableHeader
{
    u8      type;                   // Offset  0, Length  1
    u8      last_update[3];         // Offset  1, Length  3
    u32     records;                // Offset  4, Length  4
    u16     first_record;           // Offset  8, Length  2
    u16     record_length;          // Offset 10, Length  2
    u8      rsvrd1[16];             // Offset 12, Length 16
    u8      flags;                  // Offset 28, Length  1
    u8      code_page;              // Offset 29, Length  1
    u8      rsvrd2[2];              // Offset 30, Length  2
    // Total:  32 bytes
};

It's followed by a repeating structure of field records for the number of fields. This is also why the field names of a free table can only be 10 characters long:

struct SFieldRecord
{
    u8      name[11];               // Offset  0, Length 11
    u8      type;                   // offset 11, Length  1
    u32     offset;                 // Offset 12, Length  4
    u8      length;                 // Offset 16, Length  1
    u8      decimals;               // Offset 17, Length  1
    u8      flags;                  // Offset 18, Length  1
    u32     autoIncNext;            // Offset 19, Length  4
    u8      autoIncStep;            // Offset 23, Length  1
    u8      rsrvd1;                 // Offset 24, Length  1
    u8      rsvrd2;                 // Offset 25, Length  1
    u8      rsvrd3;                 // Ofsfet 26, Length  1
    u8      rsvrd4;                 // Offset 27, Length  1
    u32     rsvrd5;                 // Offset 28, Length  4
    // Total:  32 bytes
};

And then the data proceeds in the file beginning at first_record offset. The offset of each field is within each record size. It repeats as a very straight-forward data structure throughout.

CDXs are much more complex. :-)

UPDATE: I've recently created a vjr.dll which exposes functionality within Visual FreePro, Jr. as DLL functions. Some of the functions include the VJr engine to open tables, scan records, retrieve field content. That engine was originally created back in the late 90s, early 00s to read and process data independently of VFP. It hasn't been released publicly yet, but if anyone would like a copy let me know.