>I'm trying to 'hack' the header to convert a Fox 26 file to be a VFP file so I can silently add it to a DBC.
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>I am writing 30h to the first character of the header file but it moans that the file was created with a pre-release version of VFP - probably a Beta of version 3.
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>What am I missing?
>
>TIA

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Ian,
After field definitions and just before the header record terminator (0x0D) there is a 269 bytes backlink info in VFP tables. There writes the belonging DBC path.

You can add it with native VFP commands like this (assuming original is in another directory - I find it easier to have it in another dir then to rename afterwards):

use "c:\InSomeOtherDir\myOldFox2xTable"
copy to myOldFox2xTable with production && This is in VFP format in curdir()
open data myData
add table myTable && Make part of DBC

Cetin