>>>If you open the file in Visual FoxPro I think (maybe) Visual FoxPro will modify the header of the file to indicate its a Visual FoxPro file and now FP26 doesnt recognize the header anymore. See "Table Header Record Structure" for more on this in the Help.
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>>Visual FoxPro doesn't do it by default, you must be sure to Don't say yes to the nasty Window asking for change codepages. When I use DBFs no-property of Visual FoxPro, I alway SET CPDIALOG OFF

>Under Tools menu - Options dialog - Data tab there is an option to Prompt for Codepage (or not). If this is off then no prompt! Same as SET CPDIALOG.

Yeap, but I was meaning in APPs at production, no developer. Those Setting via IDE was always like this.