>Probably not the problem. I notice that there are 3 IF's and 4 ENDIF's.

That was a cut and paste error.

>
>I have had problems with Buffering set to 5. Have you tried it at 4 or 3?

Reason I used buffer mode 5 is I was trying to avoid locking the records untill the very last moment. How will changing buffering to 3 or 4 change that?

>
>Which version of Novell? We are running 3.12.

How do I determine the version of Novell we are using?

>
>>I have a problem which I cannot reproduce when I debug the version of the program on my C drive. If I copy the code to a mapped Novell drive I can reporduce the problem. The user runs a form and press on a button which invokes a "click" method. In it I check if tables where update and if not display an error message. I find that the second tapeudate reuturns ".F." Tables are buffered and buffering is set to 5 (optomistic table). Variables are declared as LOCAL variables. Billset is a cursor.
>>

>>llTableUpdateii	= TABLEUPDATE(.T.,.F.,'ii')
>>IF llTableUpdateii		
>>         *update issue records with this bill date
>>         SELE billset
>>	SET ORDER TO creqno IN pireq
>>	SET RELATION TO creqno INTO pireq ADDITIVE
>>	SCAN
>>		llRlockpi	= RLOCK('pireq')
>>		IF llRlockpi
>>	                  SELECT pireq
>>			REPLACE pireq.dbilled WITH m.idate
>>		ELSE
>>			llOk	= .F.
>>			EXIT
>>		ENDIF	
>>	ENDSCAN			
>>	         llTableUpdatepi	= TABLEUPDATE(.T.,.F.,'pireq')
>>		IF NOT llTableUpdatepi
>>		    llOk	= .F.
>>		ENDIF
>>		SET RELATION TO
>>		USE IN billset
>>		USE IN billtotl
>>	ELSE
>>		llOk	= .F.
>>	ENDIF
>>ENDIF
>>

>>I do NOT understand what is happening. Any help appreciated.