>>>>I have many systems developed in Clipper 5.2. It's using .NTX files.
>>>>I bought the Visual FoxPro 5.0 to update these systems. I would like to know how to use all .DBF tables with both languages.
>>>>Should I use .CDX of Foxpro 2.x Files? How can I do this?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks a lot.
>>>>
>>>>Paulo Hakme - ottobock@ottobock.com.br
>>>>http://www.ottobock.com.br/
>>>
>>>Paulo, you can use Clipper's DBF's as is, but you cannot use NTX files in VFP. You can use your INDEX ON code to rebuild indexes in VFP and even create one .CDX instead of many .NTX
>>>
>>>Nick
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>>How about keep the Clipper files and their indexes and use local views in your VFP development?? A local view against the Clipper tables, using ODCB to get the data should work..
>
>Bu since Clipper indexes cannot be used by VFP the speed of views may not be effective... so you need VFP indexes.

You can do an index on the views.. Using the CDX's on the tables may cause problems for clipper, since you will be modifying the header info, correct??