Hi Jim.

Thanks for your help .. I agree with you about the .5 not working ..

Houston Brennan wrote a VFP based Win32 notification class for this that works really well under 1 second. I've now tried that and from some basic tests it appears to allow me to get sub-1 second responses...

I believe he is going to post his approach shortly ...

I really appreciate your support...and all others as well.

Scott :-D

ps; How's the weather in TO?

>Scott,
>
>The first parameter of SET REFRESH seems only to apply to the BROWSE command.
>The second parameter, as I read it, applies to ANY buffered table data in the workstation and is used to cause the workstation to have its buffered data updated with any changes known at the 'server'.
>
>I tested your specification of 0.5 this morning and it caused no change in either value. Param1 remained as 0 and param2 remained at 5. This means that other workstation changes to records buffered at the (issuing)workstation could take up to 5 seconds to become known at the workstation.
>
>good luck
>
>
>>Thx Jim .. I'm retry .. and then clarify my results.
>>
>>Scott
>>
>>>Mike Yearwood has given you some ideas.
>>>
>>>I just want to review the SET REFRESH you say you tried....
>>>
>>>1) You say you tried 0.5. As I read the Help, only whole seconds are specifiable.
>>>
>>>2) The second PARAMETER, which you don't indicate you have tried, controls WRITING of records from the 'client' to the server. It should use the same value as parameter#1, but who knows when the first parameter is not valid.
>SNIP