Have a look at SET REFRESH, especially the second parameter. Contrary to the implication in the documentation, it does not apply only to BROWSE. A sentence near the bottom of the Help (tries to) says it works elsewise too.

FYI, you may only code integer values in VFP8 and earlier.

good luck


>Hi Friends
>i've interesting issue here. we've 2 applications that update same table(s).
>if appOne updates a field it takes atleast couple of seconds for appTow to see the value ? why is this?
>sometimes its causing us issues as same data have different meaning to 2 applications.
>
>BTW we are not opening tables in buffer mode. we update them either with "replace" or "update table" commands
>
>any ideas ?
>Thanks for ur help