>I have a 6.0 app loaded on a Novell network. Users just started getting tha above message. If the user hits ESC then all of the file open and seems to be fine.
>
>Any ideas?

The message indicates that in the code there is a line that required locking record or locking the entire table. The behavior in this case depends on the SET REPROCESS value. And if user hit ESC, process continues skipping the part where locking is required.