Hi,

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btw - I don't think FoxPro 2.6 for Windows has buffering or data sessions...
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Duh! I forget this was Fox2.x... I think you're right. My last DOS app was re-written about 10 years ago and I don't even have anything before VFP6.0 on my machines now. I think I'm still right on the need to RLOCK() an appended record - but it shouldn't be difficult to test ?

Regards,
Viv