As per the documentation of SET COMPATIBLE, VFP should ask you to conver memo files into fox format as soon as you USE the dbf. I am not sure VFP can read/write to .dbt without first converting it to FPT.

The interesting thing would be to test if Clipper can read/write to VFP modified FPTs.

>Hi,
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>I use Foxbase .dbf and .dbt file in VFP6. Can anyone let me know the limitation on .dbf file size and Records and the same for .dbt file.
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>Some of my old application which are complied in Clipper 5.x recently started giving problems in memo fields. Junk information started creeping in. Even if i just append a record and replace the memo field with valid information it adds either some junk or sometime carry forwards information from any previous records. Later when i searched the net i found that clipper has a limitation of 32MB max size on .dbt file.
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>Inspite of knowing that the native file format for memo field in VFP is .fpt, i would like to continue with my .dbt file format.
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>And hence would like to know whether i will face any problem using .dbt file in VFP6.
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>with regards
>(Upendra Nayak)