Hi Dan.

>Ok. Thanks for the info. But there's no software that will look at your header and determine if invalid characters have been written?

IMO, this is one of those "if you suspect there's a problem, there's a problem" kind of issues. You can overwrite the DBF header with a new one to be sure any problems are handled. A tool such as, oh, Stonefield Database Toolkit, can do this for you [g]>

Doug