Robert,

I don't know if the ODBC drivers (or what version of same drivers) could cause the corruption.
Did you check the records in your source data files? Are you sure that the corruption occurs during the update process of the destination tables ?
I know it would be great to figure out the cause of the problem, in the meantime you could try applying a filter/cleanup process to your data before or during the DDE.
Just another thought...

Sorin

>Hi Sorin
>An interesting idea, but we do not update any of these tables with APPEND FROM TEXTFILE SDF.
>We do have an external shipping application that reads info from our VFP tables and updates one of these problem tables. We used to use ODBC to do this and experienced a fair amount of the discussed corruption. We changed it to DDE and now we experience less of the discussed corruption.
>Any ideas?
>Thanks,
>Rob & Jeanne