I had some problem with dbase. I was working on dbf files with ole
connection. Once, when I wanted to see very big table connector sait
that he can't find this table. Same was when I used odbc. As I looked
at Microsoft support pages on one hand I should update my Jet driver
(for XP) because there as a bug in older version, but on the other I
shouldn't because I got most new one or my language was different than
update langage (PLK != PLK [sic!]).

So. The real reason wat that dbase files were createn with BDE.
Somethimes Jet can't just read them. sollution? It supprised me much.
Just install some version of BDE. BDE overrides jet. Now it works fine.

Hope it would help.

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