>Hugo
>what i just noticed was even my existing code working nicely on machine which is hosting the files. its only if we use it from a client computer(i mean on the network). is it network issue ? not actually programming issue ? how do i find out?

See Re: ADIR, SYS(2000) and Filer all returned wrong results Thread #1173982 Message #1174598

Also it depends on available memory (for ADIR()).