>What do you mean 'closing on their own '? Do you get foxpro or network errors?
>BTW, do you have SP2 installed on WIN2K?

-If you open the .dbf in a workarea, it will open and then, without further commands close. I have never seen such behavior.
-There is no error message displayed.
-I am not sure about SP2, but will check.

TXS