>help! I'm running a program in VFP3 under NT 4 and when my program goes to insert or update, I get a "Dr. Watson NT" message indicating 'Stack Overflow' with a memory address and listing 'vfp300.esl.exe' (I don't know why it tacks on the 'exe' to this) as the offending program. Last week one of the files used by my program exceeded 2gb--I fixed that. Yesterday, the file server on which it runs rebooted mysteriously. If I step through the program, it runs for several loops and then crashes. Can you help?

Jim

We hit on a very similar problem about 2 hours ago (maybe its sun spots).

Our NT4 server rebooted itself, and when we started up our VFP 5.0a SP3 executables, one of them generated a Dr. Watson error repeatably. One by one we replaced the executable, the indexes, the static data, then moved the live data out of the way and zaped the table. Only when we hit the right one (the last one) did our problem go away.

We are assuming that the server crashed due to magic or equivalent and sprayed some electronic noise into one of our files as it died. This noise, when read, as one of our exe's started to execute, said the equivalent of jump into somebody else's process or something like that which gave us the Dr. W.

We've been running fine for an hour now.

Look for corrupted data in one of your DBF's

Hope this helps. Good Luck

Bob