Hi,

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Is anyone else out there under the impression that Append Blank locks the record it creates or is it just me?
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Not me <g>

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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()?
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If you're using buffering then I guess the new record won't be visible outside the datasession...

Regards,
Viv