>Another FOXDOS problem. We are performing some maintenance routines with VFP 8. In the course of things we are rebuilding indexes, retructuring tables ,etc. Is it a good idea to do this in VFP for DOS tables?
Just check whether you can open the resulting tables correctly in FoxPro/DOS. You may need to COPY TO ... TYPE FOXPLUS to copy back to the older format.
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