>I am looking for a way to change a VFP6.0 table to a Fox2.x table without using the copy command. Is there anyway to hack the file with fread and fwrite to convert it. Or is there any utility that will do this.
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>I am using Crystal reports, and Crystal will work with Fox2.x tables, but the time to copy the files is getting out of control. We would like to avoid ODBC if at all possible.
The size of the table headers is different so converting it to a 2.X format would not be as simple. Why don't you leave this table as a free table in 2.X format. That way VFP and Crystal can both use the table. As long as you don't add the table to a DBC, VFP won't convert it to the new format.