Hi Wen:
Thanks a lot to your reply I'll try it. I knew that Excel open a database files and (.dbf) but some others try to open this .dbf for DOS into Excel and the arabic from Elmosaed appear as strange characters this is the main problem I'm sorry I forget to mention this problem.

actually if the .DBF file is not corrupt, you can successfully open the .DBF in MS-Excell.

but one thing you should also consider is, Ms-Excell has its limitation on row of records. Since max of rows in excell only 65536.

how many records do you have at your .DBF file ???