>We have played only a little with Crystal and Fox tables....

Me too!!! Very strange animal - but looks like a lot of power

>Do you have to use ODBC? Are you using a SQL command? Because Crystal will read DBF's directly through its own interpreter.

It doesn't want to read VFP (5.0a?) tables (DBF) files directly...

>>>I have a connect to pass through ODBC with Dbc for Crystal Report
>>>but It's very, very .... slow
>>>Somebody know Why?

Are you using current ODBC driver from Microsoft, they have released
2 or 3 versions since VFP came out.