>Sorry just got off the phone with Microsoft and it's a bug. The lastest version if the runtime incorrectly could'nt handle non fixed length fields. They have work around till then. They said ANSI ON or OFf won't fix it.
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>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFP9BugRushmoreAndCodepage~VFP
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>Here is a sample of what I am talking about

I don't know what MS support told you but it's not a bug either.