>>I have a question that I hope someone can and will help me with. I have edited some of my accounting dbf files with visual foxpro 3.0 and some of them now come back with "not a table" when I try to open them. Do you know of any utility or program that I can use to help
>> me recover these files? I sure hope you can help me with this. Thanks for your attention.
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>For a tool that does this and more, you might want to take a look at DSalvage.
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>But, as discussed many times before, when it is only a small problem with the header, many people are fixing the header by using their own Visual FoxPro routine.

Thanks Mike, but I'm afraid I'm a bit new at this and don't know what DSalvage is or how to write a routine to fix my files. A little more info if you please?!