[Manifold-l] [Spam] SHP FILES - MANIFOLD TO MAPINFO 8.5

[Richard Sands]

I've export shp files from 7.0 and emailed to client.  When MapInfo 8.5
(latest version)opens them they cannot be edited.  I have visited the
recipient on site with my laptop and copied files to their PC from memory
stick.  Still no edit.  Right click on the layer in MapInfo and the edit box
is greyed out.  The files are not read only when windows reads them and I
don't have passwords to protect the data etc.
I've repeated this with several files to no avail. I exported some as .mif
and they worked fine in MapInfo.  Only the shp files are uneditable.
(in case of wonder - Lines with lots data don't seam to export from Manifold
and into MapInfo as .mifs - they don't open at all in 8.5 at this end)
Can anyone offer help here?
Regards Richard