If it's a one-time problem (for example importing data from an old program) then put the data into an Excel spreadsheet and export as a DBF or ASCII file. If it's an ongoing matter, then ODBC is probably your best bet as Matt said.

>Does anyone know a quick way of directly reading a table in an MS Access (.mdb) database using VFP 5.
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>I can read Excel files .
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>Any help would be greatly appreciated
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>Thanks
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>Derek