>> I have a question that I hope someone can and will help
>> me with. I have edited some of my accounting dbf files with visual foxpro
>
>> 3.0 and some of them now come back with "not a table" when I try to open
>> them.
>
>As was already mentioned, you can use dSalvage, but...
>
>Just to be sure we understand your problem, is your accounting application
>running under VFP3.0 or something older? Like FP 2.x? Is it getting the
>"not a table" message under VFP3.0 or in your accounting app or older
>environment?
>
>==Carl
>Carl J. Warner
To add to what Carl has said, if your original files ARE FoxPro 2.x, then you can copy your files back to the correct format with
Copy file mytable to newtable type Fox2x
>IF< your files were originally FoxPro 2.x this will re-write them correctly.
Barbara Paltiel