Peter,

Thanks for posting your results. Interesting that LOCATE is consistently faster than SEEK on your system!

>Brien,
>
>I got w/ VFP sp3 PIII 500 128 RAM:
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>Locate: 3.45 seconds vs. Seek: 4.32 seconds.
>Locate: 3.46 seconds vs. Seek: 4.31 seconds.
>Locate: 3.46 seconds vs. Seek: 4.31 seconds.
>Locate: 3.45 seconds vs. Seek: 4.31 seconds.
>Locate: 3.45 seconds vs. Seek: 4.32 seconds.
>Locate: 3.45 seconds vs. Seek: 4.31 seconds.
>Locate: 3.46 seconds vs. Seek: 4.31 seconds.
>Locate: 3.45 seconds vs. Seek: 4.32 seconds.
>Locate: 3.45 seconds vs. Seek: 4.31 seconds.
>Locate: 3.45 seconds vs. Seek: 4.32 seconds.
>
>
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>>Locate: 4.02 seconds vs. Seek: 3.90 seconds.
>>Locate: 3.97 seconds vs. Seek: 3.90 seconds.
>>Locate: 3.98 seconds vs. Seek: 3.91 seconds.
>>Locate: 3.97 seconds vs. Seek: 3.90 seconds.
>>Locate: 3.97 seconds vs. Seek: 3.97 seconds.
>>Locate: 4.16 seconds vs. Seek: 4.25 seconds.
>>Locate: 4.35 seconds vs. Seek: 4.24 seconds.
>>Locate: 4.32 seconds vs. Seek: 4.24 seconds.
>>Locate: 4.35 seconds vs. Seek: 4.11 seconds.
>>Locate: 3.98 seconds vs. Seek: 3.90 seconds.
>
>HTH
>Peter