According to the help file, SET REPROCESS to AUTOMATIC, is the same as SET REPROCESS to –2, is the same as SET REPROCESS to 0 … Try forever and let the user terminate with the escape key. SET REPROCESS TO –1 is also the same, except hitting escape won’t terminate it.

We’ve got 4 ways to make it try forever, but I can’t find any way to make it try just once, and then give up and return .F.

According to help, nAttempts (as in SET REPROCESS TO nAttempts) specifies the number of times Visual FoxPro attempts to lock a record or file AFTER AN INITIAL UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT, so SET REPROCESS TO 1 should try once initially, and then 1 additional time after the unsuccessful attempt, for a total of 2 tries.

Amazingly, help gives an example for nAttempts = 30 which says that “Visual FoxPro attempts to lock a record or file up to 30 times”, NOT 31 times.

So, which part of help is right? Will SET REPROCESS TO 1 actually give me what I want (a single attempt, then give up), or must I use a different approach, or is there no way to get there at all?

Bob