Not reading entire file

[PaulN33]

Hi
I'm trying to work with a large file (over 6 million records) but dbfread appears to stop before the end of the file, no exceptions or anything just stops as though its reached the end of the file, the system that produces the .dbf file is 'quirky' occasionally records get saved out of order when they shouldn't this appears to be the point at which dbfreader stops.

if i delete and the reinstate the records that cause the stop using dbf viewer 2000, dbfread will continue to the next set of quirky records, if i delete and reinstate all the record in the file it reads everything.

ideally I don't want to have to use dbf viewer 2000 to do this.

anyone got any pointers as to how i might resolve this?