Hi,
Is there corruption in the free table prior to appending to the DB. At next non correct update check the relative field with hexedit, you may find there are control characters/corruption in the free table fields.

How does the free table arrive at your site, is it zipped, if so is the zip/unzip process failing.

Regards N Mc Donald

P.S. Also check buffering modes on the updated table

>Hi Neil,
> Thanks for pointing this out to me, I'll remember this. However my problem is different in that the records are appended correctly but the fields do not contain data though even fields in incoming DBFs contain data. Any further help is greatly appreciatesd.
>Thanks once again,
>Kapil.