I'm not the illustrious JohnK, but here's some info from the VFP8 beta Help. . .
"Older versions of Visual FoxPro cannot recognize tables that use autoincrementing. Removing autoincrementing restores the .dbf type to the current Visual FoxPro type value, but it does not remove the values already assigned to the autoincrement-enabled field in the table.

If you remove autoincrementing, the current state containing the last incrementing and incremental values is cleared from the .dbf field subrecord and discarded. The autoincrement settings previously stored in each record remain.

Visual FoxPro does not manage gaps in generated sequences. Gaps can be caused by reverting an appended or inserted record or by failing to update the base table and so on. In all cases, the unused value is lost, and the next generated value remains the same as if the append or insert operation succeeded."

That should tell you.



>Any new function in VFP8 to traslate VFP8 tables (with incremental fields) to VFP7 ?
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>José Luis.