I have a loop that scans thru a list of excel file names and appends each one to a cursor (which is zapped at the beginning of each pass). The command is:

APPEND FROM "&filename" XL8 SHEET 'Sheet1'

One of these files causes the C00005 flameout and the related Windows diagnostic is 'page fault'.

The one thing that's different about the offending xls file is that it contains 5 work sheets. The other files (that could be appended successfully) consisted of 1 or 2 worksheets (each work sheet has about 25 rows)

I tried using the SHEET subclause to explicitly limit the transfer to one sheet, but to no avail.

VFP6.0 SP3 has no trouble IMPORTing the offending file. Just APPENDing it. Weird.

Am running on windows 98.

Clues? Known workarounds?