>>first I select the table
>>Then I do a seek
>>it does'nt work
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>>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.
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>>I replaced the seek by a locate and everything works fine.
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>>Why would I have this behavior with the seek?
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>You can look at message 889432 and the tread the follows. It was an issue with the seek function. I know it was working in VFP 8 but maybe they didn't fix it until then?

My problem was with SET EXACT. It was on. Thanks anyway with your help.