>>For option #2: SET CPDIALOG OFF
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>Excellent, thanks!
Oh, I forgot. There
may be reasons to prefer option #1 (if the table is marked with the correct codepages, letters with diacritical marks will be translated correctly.
Search for the program cpzero.prg, in one of the VFP subfolders.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)