That would, in fact, slow your system down. If you have a local hard drive, you should use a local drive for temporary files as it will keep network trafic down and be a lot faster.

Joe

>It would apply if the temp directory (for some reason) was selected to be on a shared/common directory.
>//:^)
>
>>Although in a multi-user environment with EXE's on every workstation (therefore, different default directories), that rule regarding unique names doesn't apply...
>>
>>Take care,
>>Joe
>>
>>>>I would like to hear from those who have had
>>>>problems due to filenames used in vfp.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks and have a great day.
>>>>
>>>>Becky
>>>1) Make sure that your file names are not actually VFP reserved words like KEY,CURSOR,STATUS,INDEX
>>>
>>>2) In a multi-user environment ALWAYS use unique names for temp files and tables, for example...
>>>
>>>STORE SYS(2015) TO tempdbf
>>>SELECT * FROM mytable INTO TABLE (tempdbf)
>>>USE (tempdbf) ALIAS TEMPFILE1
>>>.
>>>.
>>>(your procs)
>>>.
>>>.
>>>USE IN TEMPFILE1
>>>ERASE (tempdbf+".dbf")
>>>
>>>//:^)