>I'd better continue to maintain the tables from home then, using VFP3.
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>Thanks for the info.

Don't know about VFP3, but I routinely use VFP5/6 to update and/or reindex tables from FP 2.6 apps, without any problems. Just can't do any MODIFY STRUCTURE commands. (and if you do, you can always COPY ... TYPE FOX2X, as long as no VFP specific field types were added)


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>>Mike:
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>>I would not SET COMPATIBLE ON, this option forces VFP to believe that the tables are 100% compatibility with dBASE. Who knows what will happen.
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>>I would not trust using VFP 6.0 to reindex VFP 3.0 tables. However, make a backup of all your 3.0 tables before you reindex in 6.0, because 6.0 may ask you to mark the code page and make the tables unusable in 3.0
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>>HTH,
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>>--Paul
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>>>If I SET COMPATIBLE ON, can I pack and re-index VFP3 tables without screwing things up? Is there another way of administering VFP3 tables from VFP6??? It sure would be faster than waiting 'till I get home!