Joe,

As well as the other's response, check out the PACK DATABASE command.

HTH

Rex

>Using vfp5...
>
>I noticed that my dct file for my dbc had grown to 14MB. I opened the
>dbc (use myprog.dbc in 0 exclusive) and then packed it. That decreased
>the dct file dramatically. I thought "build project" did this but
>apparently not. I do this all the time for dbf files but never for
>a dbc. So is what I did ok?