>>>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?
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>>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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>Yes, we already "discovered" that problem:). Our concern now is the indexes. We have some very creative indexes going on. Some alltrims, pads, uniques, for clauses. The people who wrote the program started oi Foxbase and we still have some of it's legacy.

You really should consider changing those indexes. ALLTRIM(), UNIQUE and FOR type indexes are the most fragile ones there are and FWIW, I've never found a valid reason to have ANY of those types indexes.