>I have several older DOS-only PC's which are running a mission critical FPD app for my company. I have several new PC's running Win95 on which I hope to design a VFP app to access the FPD tables.
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>What are the issues I need to worry about, so that I do not render the FPD tables unusable by FPD?
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>Should I create local (or remote) views, or is there any harm in using the FPD tables as "free" tables in the VFP project?
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>Also, when using FPD and VFP simulaneously to access the same FPD tables, are there complications with regard to record-locking?
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>Thanks,
>Joel

Joel,
You will have to be careful to NEVER modify the structure of your FPD files in VFP, as they will automatically be saved as VFP files. Also, you cannot put the tables into a DBC, they will have to remain as free tables.

Other than that, just go ahead with your VFP. And if you DO forget and change a table, just do a COPY VFPFile to FPDFile TYPE FOXPLUS (OR FOX2X, if appropriate) to make the file readable by FPD.

As for locking concerns, you should not have a problem, as your network will recognize locks by both programs.

HTH