> Well, yes. It's a much older application working with a new program.
> The new program is in dialect 3 but the older applicationis still
> working with BDE. It's not cost efficient enough to rewrite the
> older program, but it's necessary to change the guids to 15 digits.
>
>

You might have to use GUIDs then - not integers.
Search this group - there was someone recently going to provide a UDF lib
which can create GUIDs - maybe you can use it for your PKs and still use the
BDE
ALan