Jim & Sergey,

I found the way around by copying custwait.dbf from the network drive
to c:\custtemp.dbf and execute from there to obtain ctempperf.dbf with
reasonable speed less than 2 minutes as FPW 2.6 performed with VFP7.

I really appreciate both of you for SCAN ... ENDSCAN PROCESS TECHNIC which ran faster and also to all who got involved too.

Best regards,
PP