Thanks Doug for your advise and in fact this is what I suspected. I did try that but no go. I will look at the utility I have written using the SDT if something is wrong. Is there anyway to use the fread to recover the data? I saw many square boxes and data but do not know how to offset the record reading...

Regards.

>Hi Farouk.
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>>I need some help on this dbf I got back from my client. In the Windows Explorer, the size is shown to be aroung 500MB but when I use the table and browse there is zero records. Using the fopen and fread, I did see records there.
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>It sounds like the header is damaged. According to my records, you have SDT, so you could use its Repair method to fix this problem.
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>Doug