You won't gain anything. The whole purpose of packing is to remove deleted records. You won't shrink the table size without removing deleted records.

>We are Using Visual foxpro 6.0
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>And want to pack a table which has 158,000 records in it, but the size is too awful it is 1.5 GB (Altogether .dbf, .cdx, .fpt)
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>I want to pack the table but the thing is it has lot of deleted records, i don't want to remove those records permanently from table.
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>The reason is we have a function in the form's to recall the deleted records.
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>Please let me know Thank you very much.
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>-Raj