>Does anyone know if there's are bugs with tableupdate in VFP5?
>Problem is that sometimes it seems to move the record pointer of the table being updated, in this case a new record. It looks like it might move the pointer after it saves the data to the record.

Hi Harry,

Yes there is "bug" in the tableupdate in VFP5 (and 6 by the way). I spent days finding one out that happened only on NT4 (services pack levels 1-2-3 tested) - not WIN95/98 when some specific update would take place on a remote view (making a date null).

This bug just crashed the VFP or exe session. We circumvented the pb by chance in moving our code from:

IF TABLEUPDATE(param1,param2,param3)

ENDIF

to

SELECT (param3)
lSuccess = TABLEUPDATE(param1,param2)
IF lSuccess

ENDIF

Do not ask me why it did do it.. i dunno. Luck I suppose and
13 years of Fox experience...

What i am pretty sure is the TABLEUPDATE command has BUGS!

Good luck

François