>>>first I select the table
>>>Then I do a seek
>>>it does'nt work
>>>
>>>I traced what's happening in the debugger. After the seek I looked to see where was the pointer in the table. Pointer was at the right place. So in debugger it works ok as long as I check for the the content of the table. Out of the debugger the pointer is not positioned at the right place after the seek.
>>>
>>>I replaced the seek by a locate and everything works fine.
>>>
>>>Why would I have this behavior with the seek?
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>>SET EXCACT?
>
>set exact is off

Can you post your code?
I never saw such behaviour.