>Hi All,
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>I am looking for a simple way to identify VFP tables. My app can come across several different types such as dBase2 and I want only to be able to open the VFP ones. When I look at the table stru in help I see that first byte is x'30' for VFP. What is the best way to check this from inside of VFP? Any assistance would be most appreciated.
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>Regards Rex

Rex,
Besides lowlevel functions you could check the header() vs fcount(). VFP tables have an extra 263 bytes backlink space in header. ie:

lVFP = ( (Fcount()+1)*32+263+1 = header() )

or :
lVFP = ( Header() - (Fcount()+1)*32-1 = 263 )

Cetin