Hi, Rick

>I think they are DBFs, in the same sense that a VFP report file is...
>It's just that the extension is different...
>for example,
>MyFile.hdb
>MyFile.blb
>
>I can open MyFile.hdb as if it were a dbf
>USE MyFile.hdb IN 0
>
>However it doesn't know that MyFile.blb is it's memo file
>I even tried renaming them to MyFile.dbf and MyFile.fpt

Could you read the table one you renamed the three files?

If you don't need shared and real-time access to this data, maybe you can do a small procedure that copies the needed tables renaming them to a different folder where you can open them without problems. If this is an older DBF format like an old DBase version or something like that, may be you can use the IMPORT command.

Hope this helps,