>Jim,
>
>Exactly the way I do it...
>What do you mean with "I used to use ....". How do you handle it nowerdays ?

Walter,

It has been close to three years since I last used VFP tables to store data other that metadata (which doesn't very foten get locked). I have been working almost exclusively with SQL Server and that does its own handling of locking. Essentially it has been close to three years since I last even thought about locking resources.