Randy,

We do it all the time here with no problems. You might also (belt and suspenders) open the tables NOUPDATE.

>I would like to develop a small VFP application to report on some FP2.5/DOS data.
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>Will there be any issues when the FP2.5/DOS application attempts to use/append/revise/delete records in FP2.5/DOS tables that
>1) have been opened and closed with a Visual FoxPro 8 application (reporting purposes only - no data changed or appended)
>2) I do an SQL-Select against the FP2.5/DOS data that ends up in a non-normalized VFP cursor or table to drive a VFP report?