>There was some talk on another VFP forum about including the capability of using files larger than 2gb in VFP7+. Call it a ."dbv" file format with an all-new header compared to the .dbf that can handle the largest "Oracle-class" tables. It would also do variable-length character columns...
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>What do you think?

There's more involved than just the file structures. How this stuff is handled in memory will have to be changed. From what the Fox team has told me, it'll break existing applications.