It's not? according to the help file on cursorSetProp():

"The property setting is specified for the table or cursor open in the currently selected work area if CURSORSETPROP( ) is issued without the optional cTableAlias or nWorkArea arguments."

My guess is, either Joe opened the table before setting the buffer mode, or his form is in a private datasession

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>I changed it to...
>
>use config in 0 shared
>select config
>CURSORSETPROP("Buffering", 3)
>
>...and it works fine. Isn't the table that I'm "use"ing being selected by
>default?

Nope, it's never worked that way.