>If I send an emply copy of the new table to replace the original, won't the headers be wrong if it is not a free table?

what do u mean by headers? and IAC you should send a little program to acompany this file, it will use DBGETPROP to get all the
old table setting than copy all the data, delete
the old table, and connect the new one using DBSETPROP
then Validate the dbc

Arnon