What is the correct method to refresh table buffers (using vfp5 and optimistic buffering)

I have an app that after it saves a record, it updates a counter in a separate table.

select emp
insert into emp (empid,name) values (thisform.text1.value,thisform.text2.value)
select status
replace status.numemp with status.numemp+1

Someone else may have already incremented status.numemp so I need to refresh the
status table buffer. It looks like I need to use CURVAL() but I'm not sure how.

Thanks for any tips!