Daniel:

Just checked it out.
Sadly ... SET REFRESH works for brows only.
It will update a brows screen at the SET REFRESH interval, but
SELECT mytable
? mytable.changed ... still does not display the new value.

Thanks tho

Mal

>Mal,
>Check out the SET REFRESH command.
>HTH
>>Hi:
>>I thought this was supposed to work but ...
>>
>>OPEN DATABASE whatever SHARED
>>SELECT 1
>>USE mytable ALIAS mytable SHARED
>>
>>If I REPLACE a field in mytable, say field "changed", from another computer, I can't seem to get "changed" to show the new field info.
>>
>>i.e.
>>-------------------------------------------------
>>COMPUTER 1 where the database resides:
>>SELECT mytable
>>? mytable.changed ... displays "now"
>>-------------------------------------------------
>>COMPUTER 2:
>>REPLACE changed WITH "never"
>>-------------------------------------------------
>>COMPUTER 1:
>>? mytable.changed ... still displays "now"
>>[or]
>>SELECT mytable
>>? mytable.changed ... still displays "now"
>>-------------------------------------------------
>>If, however, I BROWS then
>>? mytable.changed ... displays the new info "never"
>>
>>How would I update mytable.changed without BROWS'ng
>>or issueing a CLOSE then USE?
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>MAL