Ah! Gotcha -- now why in the world does UniData not handle this correctly?

I guess that doing a 'CLEARFILE' on a dynamic file is one of those things
during design time someone said 'who would ever do that?!?' - so that detail
was omitted within the O/S!

Thanks -  I did just do a CLEAR.FILE from the ECL prompt afterwards -- I was
more curious if the fact the dat002 was hanging around was going to cause
'damage' later if I did NOT do the CLEAR.FILE - I decided not to find out.

DW

> 
> If you are doing a BASIC CLEARFILE rather than a CLEAR.FILE 
> from ECL, you have the file open.  If you have a dynamic file 
> that is has a dat002 or an over002, those will be deleted 
> when cleared, except that you have them open and Windows will 
> not let you delete them while you have them open.
> 
> Close the file and execute a CLEAR.FILE from within your 
> Basic program...
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