>>Hi Eric,
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>>>Anybody know why fields with more than 10 characters in the name get trimmed when ported to VFP6?
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>>Sounds like you are creating free tables which only support field names with 10 characters. Where yo you port from?
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>>Christof
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>It is a VFP5 .dbc that is simply recompiled in VFP6. In some cases the field name is trimmed but the index expression remains the same. So I get a variable not found error and any bound controls or access through code is hosed. The tables were never free as far as I know, they were always linked to a database. Interestingly enough, I can simply edit the name of the field in the table designer and it keeps the old name. But it is a pain in the rear. ;)
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>Eric K.

I have moved a few databases from VFP 5 to 6, and have not had this problem...

The only thing that gets recompiled when a dbc goes from 5 to 6 are the stored procedures. If there are none, the dbc is unchanged because it doesn't need to be. Same structure.