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>>By the way, the only reasonable explanation I can think of regarding your slooow FPD26 application, is a directory which is in your path, but which does not really exist, and/or a directory with spaces in the name.
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>I don't think that is the reason, anyhow I'll give a try later. The s/w is very fast under Win 98. The EDITWORK,SORTWORK, PROGWORK & TMPFILES settings is OK.
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>The s/w is installed in say 'D:\App'. The SET PATH command in Foxpro is SET PATH TO SYS(2004) + 'Default' where 'Default' is a folder. However there is also a 'Temp' folder under 'D:\App' which is not part of the SET PATH setting in Foxpro where the cursors/ temporary dbf's are stored. I'll try to include & check if that helps.
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>Does DOS PATH command has any effect ?
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>Rakesh

As far as I remember, VFP searches files in this order
1. Default directory, specifiend by SET DEFAULT
2. VFP Path, specified by SET PATH
3. DOS Path