>Hi everybody!
>I need to access several tables stored in a VFP5 database from an DOS application that uses foxpro 2.5. What is the best way to achieve this?
>

If the tables are members of a DBC, FPDOS can't work directly on the tables - it'd be necessary to generate FoxPro 2.x compatibel free tables, work on those, and if necessary, reimport any changes to the DBC.

I'd suggest excluding the tables that must be accessed via FPDOS from the DBC; they can still be used in views in the DBC as free tables, without the long field names, triggers and extended data that relies on the DBC forhandling. Once converted to free tables, it'll be necessary to convert them back to FPDOS compatible tables using COPY TO ... TYPE FOX2X.