>Mark,
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>Some of these issues have been corrected in later versions of the client.
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>My question is, what are "corrupted delete flags" and why them in particular and not the usual header/reccount mismatch?
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Cindy,

Each record has one extra byte which serves as the delete flag. I'd make the SWAG that the value stored in that byte was not what VFP expected and was done by the network OS.