Check out the ALTER TABLE command. This is actually much easier than creating a new table and appending from the original.

Josh

>Back in the old FoxPro 2.6 times, I had a program which was able to add fields to any existing DBF; if the structure of the DBF wasn´t what the program wanted, it created a new file, appended everything from the old DBF, added indexes to the new file, deleted the old one, and renamed the new one (whew!).
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>Now... how do you do this when you use database containers (DBCs)? If you change just the DBFs, the DBC doesn´t change; if you bring over a new DBC, VFP protests that the DBFs do not match. The standard GENDBC program is great for creating a DBC and its DBFs for the first time, but it doesn´t work when they already exist.
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>When I add new functions to existing systems, sometimes I must add new fields to existing DBFs. My goal is to be able to give an user a program and tell him "Run such-or-such and all your tables will be updated".
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>Any ideas?
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>Thanks!