>Sergey:
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>Thanks for pointing me in the direction of SET REFRESH. I've verified that this setting was indeed different for the command-line execution of the program than it is in the EXE, and I will make some changes along the lines of your suggestion.
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>- Doug

You may want to look at APPEND BLANK/REPLACE. The retry solution was used in the FP 2.1/UNIX era. an ON ERROR process would trap for an error 108, and then issue a RETRY.