>hi Peter
>
>i don't know what clipper version the program is written in. i have tried dbu.exe, but it only sees a fraction of the 134 fields in the dbf, so that wasn't any use.
>
>i don't have NU 6?
>i couldn't find a CA site using a search engine - any help there?
>
>i found a thing called dSalvage at hallogram.com, but it is $235, and i can't justify spending that on a freebie, specially if it doesn't fix the problem. they also have a non return policy...
>
>best - john

John,

Go to www.ca.com

http://supportsearch.ca.com/query.html?qt=clipper&col=fullsite&qc=fullsite
will bring you right into the heart of things.

CA are usually very helpfull (for free) if you ask them nicely.

Can you read the entire dbf with FP 2.6/VFP? If you can, you could open it, copy to ..., delete the clipper index and recreate the index with dbu. Be careful though, and make lots of backups!

If you can open it in Excel you could try to repair it, save as DB3 and the either copy to an ASCII file, zap & append from ASCII.
Something along those lines usually works.

Let me know how it goes, if you send me a copy of the file(s) and short description, I'll take a look at it as well.