Actually you can do this using local views and avoid the ODBC layer.

>Hiya Matt ---
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>There is a way to do it: Connect up with your older FPW/FPD data by defining remote views in your DBC and access the data through ODBC...this will allow you to use your old data and gradually move it to with a minimum of hassle.
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>>I heard somewhere that if you add a free table from FoxPro DOS 2.5 or FoxPro 2.6 Win to a VFP6 database, that it will make the table unusable by the older versions.
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>>Is this true? I want to use the database container approach to building apps, but I still have older programs that need free tables.