>That is the basic question not being answered in this thread.
Gordon,
Let me have another go at explaining this!
Assume that I have _INCSEEK set at 2
My user now has up to 2 seconds to enter the next keystroke for an incremental seek, so of I am looking for

"FRED"

and I enter

F

now if I enter

R

within the 2 seconds I will be positioned on the first of the

FR

crowd, and so on. Whereas if I had a setting lower than my key rate the

F would take me to the first one of the  <PRE>F

crowd, now I enter

R

outside of the time set in _INCSEEK, I will get the first of the

R

crowd - so I would think of that as not incremental. That is all there is to it, put a setting somewhere and allow them to choose their own rate - some of them peck away slower than you would imagine - but hey - its their application - we are just trying to meet their needs and allow them enough flexibility to think we are COOL.
HTH