>Why?, opening the table should not be a problem, how can you write to a file without opening it?, writing directly to disk byte by byte?, why would you bend VFP that way?, as an experiment?. If you're concerned about traffic use remote views or ADO (I know you said you wanted "native" VFP), still that doesn't necessarily mean it will be faster. Are you having a particular scenario where you're having preformance problems?

I have to agree with Jorge, writing to a table without opening it just doesn't sound right - would you do the same thing with a Word document?

Still, if you want to break that paradigm, one possible suggestion might be to write the new record to a plaintext file, and have some other process open the table and append from the text file.

Chris.