>> This is a known problem with vfp3, to fix it create a dummy alpha 15
>> field at the beginning of the file, it will catch the corruption and
>> leave the other alone.
>> You can periodically zap the contents of the field.


I've never come accross this one before. Is there a specific environment where it occurs? Any documentation on it? I did search MSDN but maybe I did not get my wording right!

Thanks Neil


Gary.