Bob,

Thanks. Found the form and the documentation. Now to figure out how to adapt it so I call it from my program instead of having the user doit from the menu.

June

>June,
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>There is a built in form in the framework for this and it is accessed in the File menu dropdown called 'Database Utilities'. To make it work, access the 'localtablesenvironment' data environment and add each table in your database to this environment. Check the documentation which details this.
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>>I'm re-writing an app, originally done in Foxbase 2.0, and one of the things I do there is to occasionally pack the files to get rid of unneeded deleted records. I can see how I can still get deleted records when using MM, so what's the best way to deal with these in the new order? Just have a routine that opens the table directly and packs it, or is there a more politically/OOP correct way?
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>>I'm still using native VFP tables, and VFP 7.
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>>Thanks,
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>>June