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Pack command - how to do?
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From
26/02/2001 21:04:31
Cindy Winegarden
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina, United States
 
 
To
26/02/2001 20:06:51
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00479753
Message ID:
00479857
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37
>>Nadya,
>>
>>I assume you mean a "safe" PACK command where you copy the structure and indexes to another table, APPEND FROM the old table, delete the old table and rename the new table?
>
>That's safe for free tables only. Can't rename it because of the forward link from the database, and the copy wouldn't have the backlink in the header - any file manipulation with the tables contained in a .dbc is a risky thing. Should be labeled "don't do this at home - go to your neighbor's".

Important point! I looked in KiloFox (Akins, Kramek, and Schummer) and they mentioned PACK DATABASE, but nothing special for PACKing a single table.
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