>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?

I would rather just have a .dbf with all the capabilities of any major backend. <g>