>You could leave the data in fox2x format - then both apps can read from it.
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>>I am in the process of converting a very large FoxPro for Dos application. As I convert portions of it I regularly have situations where it would be nice to be able to read the new VFP format tables from within FPD applications.
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>>Does anybody know of a way that I can read VFP format files from FoxPro 2.x programs?
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>>Thanks in advance.

That is true, but I would not be able to take advantage of all of the features of a native VFP table within a database container, which is a big part of the reason for migrating to VFP to begin with.