Menachem,

Could the value of SET REFRESH somehow be involved here?

Good luck,

Jim N

>Well, oddly enough, the NT machine has a virus scanner running (Norton) and the 98 machine does not.
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>Some further investigation has recealed the following:
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>1. The problem does not manifest itself when the data is local (i.e., NT with data on C and 98 with data on C are comparable).
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>2. The problem does not manifest itself with data on the netword with SET EXCL ON.
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>3. The problem ONLY seems to happen when the data is on the network with SET EXCL OFF.
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>PRELIMINARY CONCLUSION: At this point I have my network guy focusing on the 98 Network client to see what, if anything, is different. We may try the 95 client to see if it works and see what happens with that.
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>>Menachem:
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>> I have seen virus scanning programs cause some problems with speed.
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>>HTH,
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>>--Paul
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>>>I just got a report from a client. They have an application that processes 25,000 - 30,000 transactions an hour when the client is either Win 95 or NT4 (all on the same network). They are reporting throughput of 3,000 - 6,000 transactions per hour when the client in Windows 98.
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>>>Naturally, they are very disturbed by this. And, before the standard questions about machinery comes in, the 98 machinery is newer than the 95 machinery.
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>>>Needless to say, this has some people hornswaggled here.
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>>>Any ideas?
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>>>Thanks,