>>>>That's easy. Fixing it is the art.
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>>>The other way to corrupt a dbf is to give it to one of our customers. <g>
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>>I remember dbf files being edited in WordStar :).
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>Yep. I also remember a USMC Lance Corporal calling me to his desk to "get him back to a DOS prompt". He somehow couldn't describe where he was or how he'd got there.
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>Turns out he'd somehow managed to open command.com in edlin. He was strongly encouraged NOT to experiment in the future. ;-)

I have a colleague (fellow mathematician, that is) who became famous for asking "how do you exit from cd \?". He was AT the DOS prompt :), and couldn't even see that it was a "C:\>". Mmmm... now it looks more like a complicated smiley than something from an OS :).