I've seen plenty of dbf corruption, but this is a new one to me and I wanted to see if anyone else had ever run into this before.

I have a client who, from time to time, experiences a strange corruption in their invoice line item file. The first 2 records of the file, as well as the dbf header, are untouched. But, the next 40 - 100 records get really munged. It is not shifted data, it seems to be just overwritten. Most of the data written is unintelligible. After this corrupted section, the rest of the records through EOF are fine. The interesting thing to me is that I can see Printer Control Codes such as font names, point sizes, etc. in this corrupted block of data.

It seems that some part of a print job is being written into this DBF.

Hardware/Network/Software: Workstations are Pentium 166 or > with 48MB or >. Server is a NetWare 4.11 with approximately 50 users. S/W is SBT Pro Series running under VFP 5.

Has anyone ever seen something like this and if so, what was causing it?

Thanks for any advice.

-Matt