PMFJI--

INSERT INTO doesn't lock anything at all, AFAIK...That's what TABLEUPDATE is for. What style of buffering do you use?

>>I had the same problem On Win NT 4. You have to lock the Table header before doing an insert. Becasue when you do an insert VFP tries to lock the header.
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>Why do I need to lock the file header? I was under the inpression that VFP did that automatically with an INSERT INTO command?
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>Phil