>>Doesn't the "copy ... type fox2x" do the job? IOW, make the table 2.x compatible when creating it from VFP8.
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>The existing application is 2.5. In it, a new task will be built to add a record out of the application, which will be the new VFP 8 application. That new application contains two tables. So, the 2.5 application cannot open the table as the format is not recognized. This is where the problem is. So, one approach would be to consider having a VFP 8 small EXE just to read some flag in the 2.5 application and add the record. But, that would be overkill. I'm looking for something simpler from the 2.5 application that can do the job.

Perhaps open the table as fopen() and fwrite() the preformatted record (just an idea)?