you can always use the old table via ODBC (ie create a remote view in the VFP3.0 program) Arnon > >I'm writing a VFP 3.0 app that will need to access and maintain free tables >used by another application written in FoxPro 2.5 DOS. Structural compound >indexes (.CDX) are used to order the records. Does anyone know of any >compatibility problems that exist that would make this a bad idea? My big >concern is whether or not VFP 3.0 and FoxPro 2.5 DOS update the CDX files >the same. > >