>From Visual FoxPro 5, running on Windows NT 4.0 Server, when I erase a file using ERASE command, it takes from 10 seconds to 30 seconds before the server react and avoid us to see the file from Explorer or Visual FoxPro.
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>Any idea of what we can do to have an immediate erase?

Are you sure the file is not really erased right away? What do you have if you test it with FILE()? I also noticed some "bad behavior" of Windows 95 Explorer on Netware LAN.

Vlad