Steve,

I would add a FILES=150 (or whatever you need) to CONFIG.SYS, reboot and see what happens. Checkout SYS(2010) function in help.

HTH,

steve

>I develop on Win2000 and WinXP platforms - and do test my apps on a Win98 platform.
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>Recently an app which does keep open concurrently a large number of files and indices has given errors at a remote site running on Win98. Textfields which have a dbf as recordsource appearing as greyed out - as though dbf were empty (which it is not).
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>Thinking back to my DOS days, files=150 comes to mind. Wondering if anyone has suggestions of tweaks they've done to Win98 in a like situation.