>>>>I run a .prg to count the occurances of certain field contents on a file with 800000 records.
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>>>>another user (next to me) tries to bring up printer properties and gets the hour glass but no properties.
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>>>>I escape out of the .prg and his printer properties appear...
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>>>>What could cause this?
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>>>Along with Jim Booth's reply, I would add...Where are the TMP files going? Sounds almost like you're doing ALL your work on the network, which will really bog it down.
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>>Would I use a CONFIG.FPW file to direct temp files to the local drive?
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>Yup! One more question that impacts performance, what's the file server? Novell or NT? And if NT, what's the packet size?
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>George

NT but I don't know the packet size. What size should it be?