From an earlier thread I was in, it was recommended I try this once to do a PACK:

oVFP = CREATEOBJECT('VisualFoxpro.Application.6')
oVFP.DoCmd('OPEN DATABASE insert-full-path-to-DBC EXCLUSIVE')
oVFP.DoCmd('PACK DATABASE')
RELEASE oVFP

That only works if the VFP6 IDE is installed on the machine, which isn't possible on a production server.

I'm just wondering if it is possible (or rather, what redistributables would be needed) to do this with VFP8 now.

Thanks.