There are sections and sub-sections in the VFP Help that give a reasonable description of how this works and what you need to do.

I suugest using the search part of the Help and looking for multi and locking and some other keywords.

It is really quite straightforward but not easily describe in a place like this.

Jim
>hi all,
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>i am trying to develop an application in vfp6 to run in a multi-user environment.
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>do i need to code for file locking / record locking when modifying record, etc. or is it taken care of automatically. if i do have to code can someone give me some sample code for modifying data ?
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>are there any articles giving guidance as to how to proceed to code for a multi-user environment ?
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>sincere thanks.