>A client of mine has a FoxPro Dos 2.5 application. On a specific task in it, they have to add a record in a table which is a table built with Visual FoxPro 8. So, the problem is that this application cannot execute that task as is. We're looking for the best approach to resolve this.

Doesn't the "copy ... type fox2x" do the job? IOW, make the table 2.x compatible when creating it from VFP8.