Paul,

It's good that you have a way around the problem, but bad that we still do not know the real cause for the difference. That, I think, *could* be more helpful to you (and the rest of us) in the long run.

Jim

>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