>>>>
>>>>What often helps - not always - and you need vfp6
>>>>

>>>>use TheTable excl
>>>>alter TheTable  add dummy L  NOVALIDATE
>>>>alter TheTable  drop dummy   NOVALIDATE
>>>>
>>>>&& you can then safely pack it
>>>>pack
>>>>

>>>
>>>Gregory,
>>>
>>>Is your example supposed to fix a memo corruption or cause it?
>>
>>Fix it - with vfp6 runtime or ide
>
>Thank you for the suggestion. I will make a note of it for possible future use. Maybe I didn't express myself correctly in the initial message but my question was on how to corrupt (or simulate a corruption) a table. I will try Sergey's suggestions shortly.

Your question was clear. Just thought you might want to repair the table - vfp9 has less auto-repair capabilities than vfp6