>>>This thread is nice example what buffering used once may involve later. I guess now, it would be good idea to open table in another area USE...AGAIN and COUNT there. New records in buffer can be counted separately (if necessary) for negative RECNO().
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>>Ed, I haven't checked this, but if you USE...AGAIN will it include records in the buffer of the original USE... ?
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>>Barbara
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>I've never tried that dreadful situation, but I saw that Dave Johns advised this idea for buffered tables, so I believe he tried.


Instead of doing any extra work, why not just keep a counter
of the records. Start with reccount() prior to data entry and
then use add or subtract to this counter while still in
buffered mode to keep track of the number of records.

Dan