>>>I'm trying to grab some data from a number of FoxPlus tables using either FP 2.6 or VFP 5.0.
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>>Have you tried using an SQL SELECT on these tables? I don't know whether or not you'd be able to. Optionally, you could create an array (using AFIELDS), then a cursor from that and append the data in.
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>Yes, I've tried a straight select, but neither 2.6 nor 5.0 will touch the table until I convert the memo field from FoxPlus format. And I don't even *need* the memo field! Will look at the array solution, though. Thanks much.
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>Paul M.

Looking at Table Header structure I guess that you could open dbf as low-level file and change bytes with offset 0 and/or 28 to remove memo indicators.