Ah. You have to set buffering to row to create or delete an index tag. Then you can turn table buffering back on. So many little traps, tricks....

>>>I prefer table buffering [5],...
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>I'm trying to use your suggestion an implement table buffering, but when I set =CURSORSETPROP("Buffering", 5, "intrancust"), I get "Command cannot be issued on a table with cursors in table buffering mode (Error 1579). If I leave out "INDEX ON stocknum TAG stocknum" it tells me "table has no index order set". What did I miss?
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>BeforeOpenTables Event:
>SET TALK OFF
>SET DELETED ON
>SET PATH TO ('C:\DiamondAcct\Data\')
>OPEN DATABASE Tomparco SHARED
>SET EXCLUSIVE OFF
>SET MULTILOCKS ON
>SET DATABASE TO Tomparco
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>Load Event:
>SET EXCLUSIVE OFF
>DBSETPROP('intrancust', 'view', 'Tables', 'Tomparco!inventory')
>DBSETPROP('intrancust', 'view', 'SendUpdates',.T.)
>=CURSORSETPROP("Buffering", 5, "intrancust")
>INDEX ON stocknum TAG stocknum