>When I attempt to open a .dbf from the command window I get a message "File not Open". I check the error message and it said that "You have attempted to read from, or write to, a file that is not currently open." We have checked our server and the file is not currently being held open.
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>Any ideas?
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>Thanks,
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>Dwayne Odom

Hi Dwayne,

I've been running into this with some old FPW 2.6 apps which have been changed from running under Novell 3.1x/Win 3.1 to Novell 4.x (Client32)/Win 95. These apps had been running without problems for a couple of years previously. The applications are responsible for tables with 200,000+ records (this hasn't happened with tables with less than 100,000 records. The have compound indexes, and deleting the CDX file fixes the problem.

I posted a similar problem, and got a private response sometime later from Ed Rauh (thanks Ed). He said that he thinks that it's connected to NetWare Client32 version 2.2.0, and suggests disabling write caching.