>You may have to FLUSH (see Language Reference) in
>order for the data to be actually written to disk
>for other users to access.

Don,

I truly hope that you are right, but I am a bit pessimistic about this. I already tried closing and reopening the dbfs, and it did not help.

I'm afraid I will have to implement DBC after all!

Anyway, thank you for your suggestion!

Marc