>mark -
>
>thanks, that's what i need.
>
>in between the time i posted and the time i got your recommendation,
>i obtained ultra-edit and looked at the innards of a DBF. i could
>see the name of the DBC listed there. and that raises a couple questions.
>
>1) would you consider it bad form to use (for example) STRTOFILE / FILETOSTR
> to modify the DBC info in a DBF ?
>
>2) does the DBF have some kind of "checksum" value that i would need to
> re-calculate and update, IF i did do such an alteration ??
>
>3) is there already a utility to do that ? either from Microsoft or
> someone here UT ?
>
>i'm asking, because i do distributed systems and sometimes want to
>move DBC and/or DBF files either separately or to directories that have
>different names on the client than on the server. i don't want the users
>to see a prompt to select the correct DBC if i can update it myself.

Much easier to use REMOVE TABLE and ADD TABLE as this takes care of the link stored in the DBF and the references [records] in the DBC.