BTW this not a batch process and extra 3-5 lines not significant...

>I also thought so, but I was not quite sure. If I wrote APPEND BLANK plus DELETE plus PACK then my solution also would be three lines, and no gain. :-)
>
>>Hi Tore,
>>
>>It's only true if a table has deleted records, otherwise PACK will do nothing.
>>
>>>
>>>even easier is PACK because pack internally does more or less the same as you do with your three commands.
>>>
>>>>Hi Nuno,
>>>>
>>>>Don't care that. Until VFP8, VFP don't check file size of DBF file. Since VFP8, VFP checks .DBF file sizes.
>>>>
>>>>You can do that:
>>>>set table vali to 0
>>>> rena mydbf.dbf to mydbf.bak
>>>> use mydbf.bak
>>>> copy to mydbf
>>>>
>>>>after that you will see the file won't give that error. Because this process fix table size.