>>>It is true that fp2.6 an VFP7.0 dbf's are different. Only in header Microsoft pu a few simbols that set with what product you work.
>>>My programmers tell me that if you open a DBF's with other version - it change header and could be not possible to open it with original one.
>>>We refuse that kind of project where client like to work simultaneously modules done with FPW2.6 and VFP7.0
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>>That's not entirely true. You can access and update fox2x table in VFP w/o converting them. However they'll be converted to VFP if you perform on them any command that requires exclusive use of table, like INDEX, PACK and so on.
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>Nope, the only action that you can perform that'll deny Fox 2.x from opening a table that's been accessed via VFP is to add the table to a database. In fact, if a table has become corrupted in 2.x and cannot be opened with that version, opening and packing it in VFP often corrects the problem (usually connected to a bad record count in the header).

Right. I stand corrected.