I tried your example with free tables and It didn't work in VFP 7 even 6.0
Also I didn't receive an error and the table didn't rollback. However it works perfectly when I use Tables in database. Roberto

>The VFP7 help for Transactions states:
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>"Transactions are supported only for tables in a database"
>
>I dont understand this because I know I'v used transactions
>on Free Tables before. The following code works fine:
>
>
>CLOSE ALL
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>SELECT 0
>USE Table2
>CURSORSETPROP("buffering", 4)
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>SELECT 0
>USE Table1
>CURSORSETPROP("buffering", 4)
>
>BEGIN TRANSACTION
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>SELECT table2
>replace IN table2 test2 WITH "HELLO"
>=TABLEUPDATE()
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>SELECT table1
>replace IN table1 field1 WITH "HELLO"
>=TABLEUPDATE()
>
>END TRANSACTION
>
>
>If I try to do a ROLLBACK, the rollback has no effect. What gives?