I have heard that it is not wise to pack a table on a production system, especially when you're dealing with a fairly large table. ( 100,000+ ). Instead you do something like:

PARAMETERS tcDbc, tcTableName
USE (tcTableName)
COPY TO TEMP DATABASE (tcDbc) FOR NOT DELETED()
RENAME TEMP.DBF TO &tcTableName..DBF
REINDEX
* Or recreate the indexes one by one from a data dictionary

1. Is the correct syntax.

2. If its correct, is there a problem in VFP 5, where the copy to only copies the first 10 characters of field names.

TIA