Ed,

Thank you very much. Never had this problem before.. never thought of that. It makes a lot of sense. I'll try it soon. I am quite impressed.. you know so many things...! .. and you regularly help others with your knowledge... this is always appreciated.

Réal

>>I tried to zip a quite small dbf from foxpro on a Pentium III 450mz with a very small program in Foxpro (!Pkzip clients.dbf) and I have the message insufficient memory. I tried with other computers on this Novell network and I always have the same result.
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>>Anyone have a clue?
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>yep - don't remeber the switch settings involved, but you have to force PKZIP to only use conventional memory; it's a problem with the Novell client. Look at the docs for PKZIP.