Open the dbf(s) with a hex editor. Check the 1st byte. It should be '03' for tables with no memo file, and 'F5' for tables with a memo file. Clipper programmers use to sometimes change the 1st byte as a simple way of making the tables unrecognisable to others. In their code, they would change it back.

I don't know if that's your situation, but it's worth a check.

Alan

>I am trying to estimate the conversion of a project from CA-Clipper, Version 5.2b to Visual Foxpro. The previous programmer is not available for support. The existing tables are dbf's and the index files were created using a third party utility called Comix/Clipmore Version 2.0 that supposedly create compound index files like Foxpro.
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>I cannot open any of the tables in VFP. I have tried versions of Foxpro back to FPW 2.6 with no luck. I cannot open tables even if no index tag was created for the table. I get the error message "Not a table/DBF". Any ideas how I can access these tables without purchasing all of the original components?
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>Tim