>>can antone help me unzap a dbf file?
>
>It's called RESTORE YOUR BACKUP. Once you've zapped a dbf, its contents are
>long-gone. Recovering the contents of a zapped file is like trying to
>undelete a file with no recycle bin entries, no deleted directory entries,
>no delete sentry entries, no nothin'. The only way to recover that data is
>with something like Norton Disk Doctor where you review the entire hard
>drive sector-by-sector, try to identify your data and recover it to a file.
>Then you hope you can piece it together right. Restoring a backup and
>re-entering what you lost is 1000 times easier.
If there has been no hard drive activity, then dSalvage can unZap.