Thanks Sergey for responding.

>There's no reliable way in FoxPro to detect table or index corruption.

Any unreliable way you can suggest.

I was thinking maybe I can get a snapshot of some bytes in a structured manner when I close a table (assuming that the dbf is in okay condition). Then when the dbf is reused I can compare the snapshots, if they match the dbf is okay, if not there is corruption.

But, but does this corruption happen after a close?

Clients can manage corruption, I can't duplicate it.

Especially the shifting of data type, does this happen in use or after as the net card could not write the dbf?