>>A few weeks (or months?) ago, I read a brief note, which mentioned that record locking wasn't working yet. I don't know whether they made it work in the meantime.
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>Of course, if you write your ap to use MySQL or Postgress or other Unix SQL server, this is not as much of an issue.
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>BOb

MySQL is a pretty good idea, no 2GB limit, pretty robust. OTOH, working with data files becomes more time consuming. For years while working with COBOL I never had the convenience of VFP but managed a number of decent work arounds (though none was as easy as USE/BROWSE/etc.).
Scott