I knew IN 0 used the lowest available. I figured it selected it also. Thank you!

>>Ok... I'll take a look at that. Anyway... the reason the buffering failed is that I did not select the table before
>>setting buffering.
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>>I did this...
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>>use config in 0 shared
>>CURSORSETPROP("Buffering", 3)
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>>when I apparently need this...
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>>use config in 0 shared
>>select config
>>CURSORSETPROP("Buffering", 3)
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>>Not sure why the select is needed. Oh well.
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>Because IN 0 selects the lowest available open workarea and opens the table in that workarea. If you have no tables open at all, then the current workarea (1) is the lowest. If there are tables open, then some other workarea is used. VFP does not switch you to that workarea.
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>*snip*