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Append Blank and record locking
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11/11/2004 16:56:14
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
FoxPro 2.x
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
FoxPro Windows
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00960590
Message ID:
00960655
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9
What sort of buffering do you use, if any?

>I'm feeling dumb today.
>I'm sure that somewhere I read or was taught that an Append Blank locks the record it creates. I just tested that and it doesn't seem to be true.
>
>Is anyone else out there under the impression that Append Blank locks the record it creates or is it just me?
>
>Is it perhaps because a new record is something the system doesn't know about and there for won't try to write to... so it seems like it's safe enough to not bother with a RLOCK()?
>
>Rick
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