Al,

>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.

That is the impression I got from the *FPW* docs on flush and set refresh.
Old docs are sometimes a great help (but please spare me the rest <g>)

rgds

thomas