Dennis,

Firstly, you can now modfify a message you created as long as no-one has replied to it.

Secondly...
The way I do what you require is by using a data dictionary, this defines the exact structure of all the tables in the database, they are all checked before going into the system (we have had users opening a table in Excel, making a column wider or narrower then saving.. this breaks the CDX link and modifies the table structure - urghh)

If you wanted, you could verify this info against the dbf header but you would need to analyse the structure of the dbf in detail first..

Just a thought, you could have a memo field with the correct header info and compare it with the dbf (but remember there are certain parts of the header which change each time you add a record, there are table lock flags, record counts and maybe more)

It may be worth looking around to see if you can find a definition of a .dbf header.. I'm sure there must be one somewhere in a foxpro advisor article (although I have never seen one)

HTH

Will

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