Hi Guy,

I look at it the other way around... VFP5 (apparently), 6 and 7 ALL just let the error condition be, without complaining in any way! THAT was a big no no, finally addressed in VFP8.
I guess they had to allow user 'override' to maintain compatibility with the prior situation.

cheers


>Sergey,
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>Doesn't this ignore the fact that there's some corruption with the table and we're telling VFP to just ignore it?
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>Aren't we playing with danger by not resolving the corruption problem?
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>Guy
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>>>I have a table created by VFP 8.0 and also running on an application compliled by VFP 8.0 which being report corrupted and can not be used by VFP 8.0 application. I tried to open that table using VFP 5.0 and it works. Well I hope this information can be usefull to others.
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>>See

SET TABLEVALIDATE

command in VFP8 help.