>>>If your files are on Win98 (or 95 or ME) and you are getting this error on a XP system accessing them, see also Bug List #26, which is a copy of MSKB #812926
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>>Hi Jim,
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>>There's a typo in MSKB # . It's MSKB #812696 >
>right you are. Thanks Sergey.

Thanks all. I failed to correct the problem with both utilities suggested. They reported no error in the dbf and ftp files. Now I am about to try Javier's technique at the client's machine. It works in mine.

PS: the clients are all W98, no XP.