>>I wrote a program (EXE) in vfp50 for a network.
>>On one station, it runs great! On three another stations it runs slow. The EXE is on the user's PC and the data
>>path is set to a network path. I blame the slow speed on the data path, but the one station that runs fast has the same data path? The network is Novell.
>>help
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>Are all stations on the same segment? I'm not a network person, but I've definately had that problem with Novell before. Network traffic can hammer Foxpro. Is it possible that the 'slow' stations hit more traffic than the 'fast' one in accessing data? If you're not sure or your SA is not avaiable, try timing opening a word document from the same location as the data and see if there's a difference.
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>HTH

thanks... I do not even know what a segment is? I will check the network
protocols.. thanks again...