Jos,

Something has been bugging me about this problem.

Is the DateTime that you are working with different from the "natural order" of the file?... I would expect that each record was written to the table in its original datetime sequence.

Jim

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>>If you use table buffering on the write wa,
>>and put a tableupdate(.T.) at the end of the SCAN of the read wa
>>you can do the job.
>>
>>But, when the SCAN run, have you exclusive write access to the datetime field ?
>>If no, only the SELECT RECNO() .. extraction can do the job correctly
>>( this photographer the status of the table )
>>
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>Fabio. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out.
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>Ciao.