>I have 5 tables in a data environment in a form. I don't really want to use table buffering, but then how can I keep from writing changes until I do a tableupdate? In row buffering, changes are committed when the record pointer moves.

it send the updates when the record pointer moves on the specific table nothing will happen if you move the record pointer of another table

or if I didn't understad you correctly what is the situation you have trouble with?

Arnon