Thanks, that was it. I don't know exactly how the errors were interrelated, but once I told sqlite (via the PRAGMA thing) to use memory for tmp stuff, all was fine.
I'm working under a cygwin environment which seems to be a bit shaky when it comes to system-specific stuff like permissions. robert _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users