> also,
>when I APPEND BLANK,
> the record pointer to going to the last record instead of adding a blank
> record at the end. Do you know why? thanks
Robert,

APPEND BLANK will add a blank record to the currently selected work area and position the record pointer on that new record. If you are seeing something different than this it is something in your code that is doing it. It may be that you had the wrong work area selected when you appended the blank record or that some other line of code is moving the record pointer after your append blank. The only way to debug this code would be to see all of it, that is what lines of code are around the append blank, what controls are affecting the alias that is getting the blank record, is that alias buffered, etc..