Of course, you're right Ed. Sorry for the erroneous information. And thanks for correcting the mistake.

George

>>>1) When I access the files from VFP. I always get a screen coming up asking me what Code Page I want... is ther a way of suppressing this
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>> Take a look at SET NOCPTRANS
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>Actually, it's SET CPDIALOG OFF rather than NOCPTRANS, which overrides the code page assignments for fields in a table to make them 'binary' character/memo fields. SET CPDIALOG OFF disables the code page dialog from getting fired all the time.