We had a computer freeze during the night (it gets cold in the SF Bay
Area), and the worker was doing data enter into a dbf using foxpro/dos
2.6, under program control. I flush the buffer after every record
entered, due to some 'segment errors' of yesteryear. Now we cannot get
back into the dbf because it comes up as a 'not a dbf' error. I have
solved this in the past but I don't remember how, and usually it was a
trial and error. I deleted the .cdx file, as I can create it easily
again. I backup this type of dbf daily, but I would rather her not
experience the re-entry process as it will reduce her confidence in
computers.
This is a header issue. What is a clear solution to this. I have hex
editors, I can write code using foxpro low level file access, etc. I
looked at the header and saw the first 16 bytes as:
03 0D 0B 09 04 19 00 00-21 01 4B 00 00 00 00 00
The file has about 6500 records (est-my daily backup wrote over the good
dbf with the bad dbf (need to rethink my daily backup program ;) )backed up
The answer might help others with the same error.
John
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