>VFP does not recognize these characters. When the export file is open in VFP with MODI COMM, they appear as little squares.
I think you should use a hex editor, to find out what are values of the extra characters.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
