>I have an FPW2.6a application that is running on a Novell network that is experiencing the above error when trying to close an open file. FoxPro Help is no help at all - just refers you to the troubleshooting section and then says to call MS Tech Support. BLAH!
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>Can anybody give me some real help? Also, since this is a new client and most of our other clients are running NT which is not experiencing this error, are there any other Novell gotchas that I need to watch for?

Make sure you have the Files option high enough in your config file for netware. I had my files set to 120 in my config.sys, but forgot about the netware config file. Both must be properly set! That is one I forgot. Concerning your illegal off-set problem: I have seen this problem on our Netawre 4.0 network when users are running FPW2.6x on a Win95 box. It is sporatic and unpredictable. The same code that produced the error will run OK minutes later. I have my guess that the problem is a conflict with a Novell NLM or VLM. I have not seen this problem when users are accessing data just from an NT server. Hope this was helpful. Steve