Hi Dan ---

One thing not being made clear here is whether or not you are changing versions with the update. Now, if the update is for VFP 6 (SP3) then you can COMPILE DATABASE mydbc before the rest of your code and the problem goes away.

>I am getting ready to release an update to an application done using VFP 5. This update requires several changes to tables and views. I have used GENDBC to generate a script for creating the DBC, TABLES and VIEWS necessary for the new application. I call this script in my update routine then open each table and append the records from a copy of the old tables.
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>This process works fine on my development machine. However on my test
>machines it does not work. During the process that opens each new table and appends records from the old, I get an error that says "Object file c:\pbuilder\data\insteff.dbc was compiled in a previous version of FoxPro."
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>Again this does NOT happen on my development machine!
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>Does anybody know what is causing this?