>How would I find out if the network hard drive had some bad spots? I am running under Novell.
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>Brenda

The first test we did was copy the table, its index file, and the fpt file to a local hard drive and view the data with a browse and a program to search for those vertical bars. Nothing showed up, which made us wonder. So I had another program copy the files to their local drive and the tables looked fine. So I went out to the network and checked the files there and the bars were back. I had other programmers browse the table on the network and the same thing showed up for them. So we renamed the original network table (and there cd and fpt files) to be prefixed with 'Bad', then copied the files I had locally back to the network. Informed the Novell administrator of the problem, proving that the original files exhibited this behavior. He then had Novell check for bad sectors. I think Novell can be set to do this automatically or you may have to do this manually. I tend not to enter the Network side of the job, as I have enough problems of my own.