>>You have hit upon a problem that we have had for about a year. Novell does not seem to release the file for deletion quick enough. So I also insert a WAIT, but mine is about 1 not 5. The other solution I use is to write to a temp directory and leave that file out there. Then every night I have a process that runs to clean up the directory on the network.
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>I used 5 as a paranoia number - 1 is probably sufficient for most purposes. Then again, this application is a six-hour walkaway process, so an additional four seconds isn't going to change things significantly.

David,

Just to chime in to what Bret told you, Novell seems to want to "hang" onto file handles, and connections as well. We've run into both of these problems. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a workaround.