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Vertical block chr in corrupt dbf
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14/09/2004 12:32:51
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
 
 
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14/09/2004 12:22:14
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00941947
Message ID:
00941956
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>PS:If your primary key is integer do not make it the first field (ie: put a dummy c(1) field before it).
>
>Cetin, why?

Unfortunately it has been long I can't remember where I first saw it mentioned. Basically to absorb 'unwanted block chars' and reduce the chances of corruption. I haven't seen such corruption for a long time but I don't know exactly if that was for additional measures I took or adding that field.
Cetin
Çetin Basöz

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