Basicly, you'll have to scan whole table and look for unusual characters in the fields.

>Thanks Sergey for responding.
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>>There's no reliable way in FoxPro to detect table or index corruption.
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>Any unreliable way you can suggest.
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>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.
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>But, but does this corruption happen after a close?
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>Clients can manage corruption, I can't duplicate it.
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>Especially the shifting of data type, does this happen in use or after as the net card could not write the dbf?