Tony,

a few remarks,

Apply visual studio 97 servicepack 3 for VFP 5.0 to upgrade to VFP 5.0a, which has proven to be quite stable.

Apply service pack 6 for the NT server.

>I use VFP 5 with no service pack. All of the worstation are using Win98 or
>Win95. The Server is running NT 4 with SP3.
>
>I already use Buffering and never open the exclusively during normal operation.
>
>Do you have any suggestion for a good 3rd party tools that can automatically detect and fixes the corrupted file (DBF, FPT and CDX)

I rarely use one because, it almost never occurs to me, but I think there are some in the files section.

Walter,