> >> Set up the VFP application to do things the VFP way...OOP, Data > Sessions, > >> etc. In the DBC, you'll have stored procedures that are called by the > >> triggers on the new tables. These triggers will automatically fire and > >> update the old FOXDOS free tables. Once the entire application has been > >> written in VFP, remove the triggers. > > > >This means that you'll require two copies of the data, right? One as > >the free tables that the Pre-VFP version can access (ahem!), and one > >with the tables managed through the .DBC. > > > >At this point, you wouldn't be able to use the pre-VFP version for > >updating (insert/update/delete) the information, because there'd be no > >way that these changes could show up in the VFP version automatically. > > Why wouldn't this work?? Map the fields to the VFP data, then save it to > the free tables in the Trigger methods. 2.x can't see the tables, unless they're free tables. The triggers couldn't be fired through updates to the 2.x data.