>We have seen corrupt FPT caused by:
>1 The Users PC losing Power in the middle of an update.
>2 The user themselves running a program that cuased the blue screen of death.
>3 The server having bad disk blocks (hard drive starting to go) where the data for the table resided.

>FPT files are a weak link and sometimes very hard to pin down where corrupton is originating.

>HTH
>Bret Hobbs

Thanx Bret,

We have checked all of the above and still have not found the error causing culprit. I still suspect using a win98 machine as the server is the cause as I would think win98's file handling capabilities to be somewhat different than win2000's, but that is just a guess at this point. I wish we could convince this client to try making a win2000 machine the server and the win98 machine a workstation to see if the problem continues. So far to no avail though.

Thanx again,

Randy W Fogg