You got to back further. With EXCLUSIVE OFF and Clipper Summer '87 2am build APPEND BLANK does lock the record.
>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.
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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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>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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>Rick
Regards,
Mike
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