>Hi Bret,
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>Writing data is always slower than reading it (on any drive). Writing data to your C: drive, will be faster than writing to the L: drive because c: is local and L: is on the network (the pipe is about 10 times slower).
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>Copies between network drives take longer because the data is read BY YOUR COMPUTER (going through the network), and then written again BY YOUR COMPUTER (going through network again).
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>Novell has a command called NCOPY that will copy files WITHIN a server, so if both drives N: and L: are in the same server, NCOPY N:somefile L: will really fly.

How would you perform a NCOPY from within VFP?

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>Another thing worth considering in order to speed up a server would be a scsi drive. Supposedly they handle multi-user environment better. I have never had a chance to run benchmarks myself in this regard, but it does seem reasonable.

All drives in the Novell server are SCSI.