>>>'gotcha' is that if you ever do a 'modify structure' in VFP on the FPW tables >they will be saved as VFP tables. Second biggest (IMO) is that you can't use
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>>Not true, Barbara. VFP will only change it if you use a VFP specific field type like INTEGER or DATETIME or CURRENCY. As long as you only use field type like FPW supports, no problem.
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>Are you sure about that? I opened a FPW table in VFP to add 5 char to a 10 char field recently and FPW would no longer read it. Had to go get my backup copy.

Barbara,

I just tried it again to make sure. Created a table in FPW2.6. Added some data to it and closed it. Opened the table in VPF6 exclusive. Added a new character field to it. Closed the table. Went back to FPW2.6, and I was able to open the table fine. I even tried it with memo fields, no problem there, either.