changing field's length?

Hi,

We use AbraSuite HRIS at my workplace. It's about 5 years old. It has
foxpro (dbf) files on the backend...

Currently, the P_JobTitle field in the hrPersnl.dbf file holds only 25
characters (though the field length reports as 154.. but 154 what I
have no idea...)

We would like to alter this field to accept 70 characters... changing
the field length from 154 to, say 308, didn't accomplish anything..

Anyway.. I'm looking for any advice on offer regarding how to make this
alteration to the field.

Thanks a million.

Joshua

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