Hey Joel,
Although I replied to your similiar posting on the hourglass maillist, I'll give you the same advice here...local views can read/write VFP and FPD data.
>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
HTH,
Jim Duffy
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