Hi Bill.

>The code below has been running since 2003 on WinServer3003
>
>When testing it on win server 2008 the ALTER TABLE command fails with the message that
>"File C\windows\temp\1\xxxxxx.dbf does not exist"

In addition to the other suggestions, this sounds like it may be a write caching issue. The DBF file hasn't been written to disk yet, so ALTER TABLE fails. Try turning off write caching or using some code that pauses for a moment (using the Windows API Sleep function) after creating the cursor and before using ALTER TABLE.

Doug