title: How to get the data from fpt and dbf (FoxPro) files?
body: <p>The files .fpt and .dbf (made in Visual FoxPro 8) have the text (readable for humans) which I need to get or at least to see. But I can't do that. MS excel  sees not only the text but also a lot of symbols which make no sense.</p>
  
  <p>So my question is how can I extract the text from the files? Visual FoxPro 8 can't open it saying that soandso.fpt is missing or invalid even though I have tried to open the very file (soandso.fpt).</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to get the text from the files .fpt and dbf?</p>