All good points, Al. I think your summary below probably describes the situation accurately. Well, makes great sense to me :-)

>Thinking this through, I'm beginning to suspect that the old FLUSH command (or new one w/o FORCE) simply flushed VFP's own buffers/caches and didn't have any effect on either the local or server OS. Even the new one with FORCE will work only as far as the redirector/client and backend server implement and respect the Microsoft single-file FFB call.