>I need to run my foxpro application in a environment with more than 10 users so i put the dbf files on a ubuntu file server.
>I need to scan a directory on the file server from a windows PC, to see if there are temporary files created by the users.
>What happens is that the file is created but the adir function takes several seconds before seeing them. It answer 0 files.
>I tried to create a file and run the adir directly from the user pc and the command works fine.
>It looks like Ubuntu hides the folder content for a while.
>Hope my english was good enough :)
>thanks to all

Have you tried Sys(2000)?