>....Seems one of his men in the warehouse turned off the server right in the >middle of the busiest part of the day.

Are VFP files the only files that break when a server is turned off? Sounds like there was some weakness in the implementation. Few shops place servers in areas where someone is likely to do this. They're either locked in a cabinet or personel understand the DO NOT TOUCH policy.

I don't think that an enduser turning off a server during a transaction and the resulting data corruption, should be blamed on VFP's DBF engine. Rather, the problem seems to be 1) The end user that turned off the server, and (2)the administrator responsible for leaving the server in a unsecure area. I don't think VFP had anything to do with it. I don't think bad luck had anything to do with it. Somebody was on a quality assurance holiday - and thats all that happened:-).