>Hiya JimB....
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>>I tested this and the DE sets multilocks according to what is set up for buffering on the cursors. So VFP does set it automatically, for cursors in a DE. If we open the table with USE and then try setting buffering with Cursorsetprop() we must first set multilocks on.
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>Hmmm...so maybe I had it right about the ambiguity of the Form setting? At the same time, maybe VFP forces a manual setting with CURSORSETPROP()....
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>This would make one helluva an article if it could ever be 100% figured out, eh?

John,

I ran tests wioth debugout and found that multilocks is set to ON between the opentables and the Init of the DE.