Mark, check out

"Table Structures of Table Files"

and

"Table File Structure (.dbc, .dbf, .frx, .lbx, .mnx, .pjx, .scx, .vcx)"

in the VFP help documentation. If you open the file in VFP I think (maybe) VFP will modify the header of the file to indicate its a VFP file and now FP26 doesnt recognize the header anymore. See "Table Header Record Structure" for more on this in the Help.


>We have some fox 2.6 tables that sometimes get the "not a dbf" error. Not sure what the problem is but... We can open these files in VFP 6.
>Now, one would think that we modified the structure in vfp 6 but that is not the case - we never modify these files in VFP.
>
>Any idea what is happening that make these files readable in VFP but not in 2.6?
>
>Thanks - Mark