Gaylen,

In addition to Sylvain's and Nadya's good points, I would put add a FLUSH statement. Take a look at the article about primary keys on Craig's website (www.craigberntson.com), you'll see where to FLUSH *grin*. Also, he uses FLOCK(), rather than RLOCK().

>I use the following code to create sequential numbers compliments of Michael.
>The code has worked fine until the last several days where it is creating duplicate numbers.
>
>

>LOCAL lnOldSel,lnCompteur
>lnOldSel=SELECT()
>lnCompteur=0
>IF ! USED('key_no')
> USE key_no IN 0
>ENDIF
>SELECT key_no
>1
>DO WHILE (NOT RLOCK()) AND (INKEY(0.1)=0) AND lnCompteur<=25
>   lnCompteur=lnCompteur+1
>ENDDO
>REPLACE NUMERO WITH NUMERO+1
>UNLOCK
>SELECT(lnOldSel)
>RETURN key_no.NUMERO
>
>

>
>The server is Windows 2000 server and using VFP 7.0.
>
>
>Any idea what may be happening or is there an inherent flaw in the code.
>
>Thanks
>Gaylen