GO RECNO() IN ALIAS()

Does the trick. Thanks.

>>No explicit buffering is used at all. The tests are on plain VFP tables.
>>
>>>>Using native VFP tables, I have been attempting to check if another network user has changed a record whilst the present user has been editing (no buffering involved).
>>>>
>>>>CURVAL() does not return the value from disk, but uses a cached value. SET REFRESH seems to make no difference to anything.
>>>>
>>>>If I issue REFRESH(), despite an error (no update tables specified), CURVAL() does correctly return the disk value.
>>>>
>>>>Is there an official way to achieve this, or must I use REFRESH(), supressing the error?
>>>
>>>
>>>What is it the Workarea buffering set ?
>>>
>>>Fabio
>
>Premised that, one corrected definition of CURVAL() does not have to depend on buffering (the same one for REFRESH()).
>
>Even if it is strange that with a native table CURVAL() functions with buffering = 1, I can confirm this fact.
>
>Well, CURVAL() don't read from the filesystem,
> but from the VFP's inner cache ( SYS(1103) report it's size ), or uses the workarea buffer where VFP store OLDVAL().
>
>Then:
>try:
>

>GO RECNO() IN Alias
>

>
>or
>

>SYS(1104) && clear inner cache
>* SYS(1104,Alias) && in VFP9 clear inner cache for the fileHandle(Alias)
>

>
>Of course, REFRESH() it is the better solution,
>but the Team has put of the code that controls the buffering and generates a error
>(a incorrect definition for REFRESH()).
>
>Fabio