>Two suggestions:
>First: at the old style (before VFP and Tableupdate()), with a while loop trying to lock the record/table with a try time and an On Key Label ESC to exit the loop and make a tablerevert.
>If you are using transactions do a rollover if fail
>
>Second: at the new style try a while loop with tableupdate(.F.) and check for returned value from tableupdate,... the same than first answer.
>
>Hope this help
>
>Mauricio

Thanks again. Both were not my aplications, but I'll try to pass along your suggestions...