Jos, Thanks for your reply.

The help file ia ambiguous in this , in fact it says Lock() will lock all records (it does not exclude the zero case)

The functionality has obviously changed from 2.6 to visual as Lock (without specifying record nubers) could be used to lock a file then !!!

Thans for your help.

Gerard




>Gerard,
>
>LOCK() locks a record. FLOCK() locks a file. In VFP7, on an empty file LOCK() returns .F. because there is no record to lock. FLOCK() will return .T.
>
>
>>Hi.
>>In VFP 7, I cannot lock an empty file (even with Multilocks on)
>>
>>In VFP7 and FPW 2.6
>>--------------------
>>Close all
>>Use Temp
>>Zap
>>Appe Blank
>>? Lock() Returns a True
>>
>>In FPW 2.6
>>----------
>>Close all
>>Use temp
>>Zap
>>? Lock() Returns a true
>>
>>
>>In VFP7
>>-------
>>Close all
>>Use Temp
>>Zap
>>? Lock() Returns a False
>>
>>It seems that I cannot lock an empty file in VFP 7. Is this the case ?
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>gerard