>Hi,
>
>My vfp5a application when run with my live data, report of
>'this application had instructed a illegel instruction' by win98.
>
>The detail message is ' caused a stack fault in modules VFP500.DLL at 015f:1000101a'
>
>I traced the code that cause the problem after running the code is show below :
>
>ADIR(aTmp, 'c:\temp\d????.007')
>
>
>I didn't declare the variable aTmp at all as I do not know in advance how much is needed for the array.
>
>Even adding the code below ,didn't help too
>
>Release aTmp
>
>Is it due to my stack setting, I can't find the setting for vfp5a.
>
>Any advise or help is very much appreciated.

Sometimes, a disk fault will cause this. Try running ScanDisk.

HTH

Glenn