>Hi Vlad,
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>Seems it is not exactly right. FLUSH sends the command to write the data on disk and data are passed to operating system. At this point the data are saved on disk as far as FoxPro concerned, but they still may be in network buffers/cache somewhere until they are really written to disk.
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Hi!
There are certain OS functions that tell it : DO NOT BUFFER THESE DATA, WRITE IMMEDIATELY. That what VFP uses for FLUSH command. This greately increases reliability.
Vlad Grynchyshyn, Project Manager, MCP
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