>hmmm... I must be missing something if this true. Tested this with the following.
>
>USE table IN 0
>=CURSORSETPROP("Buffering",5,"table")
>GO top
>SKIP
>REPLACE codedsc WITH "BBBBB"
>lnrec=GETNEXTMODIFIED(0)
>? lnrec
>
>lnRec at this point returns "2"
>
>changes are only commited if a tableupdate is issued And then getnextmodified = 0

Hilmar meant 'newly appended' and not yet committed ones have negative record numbers.
Try with an append blank or insert into.
Cetin