>My guess, perhaps you can still use insert blank, but you have to give up something,
>like set exclusive on. I am just not sure precisely under what conditions
>foxpro 9 will allow insert blank. That's what I am asking about.

Steve,

For the INSERT BLANK :

The table has to be open exclusive

It cannot have indexes

It cannot have buffering enabled

I would recomend you to reconsider design of your application to use INSERT-SQL or APPEN BLANK.

--sb--