True, true.

You are between a rock and a hard place - perhaps you could write needed data to some fox2x tables in your vfp application that you read in the dos app. Then those tables just go away when you move completely to vfp.

There's really no good answer to this.

>>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.
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>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.