Roger, This can get really tricky, especially if you have to allow for situations where the PC may not be connected to the AS/400 at the time changes are made to one file or the other. You end up having to implement a queuing mechanism on both sides. Of course it depends on the application, but you might want to consider just using a linked table. I don't know if this is an option in dbase, but in Access you can define an AS400 file as a remote table across ODBC. This is certainly not something I'd do to support a high volume, multi user application, but is simple and appropriate in some situations. Mark McCall
On Tuesday, February 16, 1999, 12:03 PM, Roger W. Wells wrote: I need to keep a dbase 5 file on a PC and a AS/400 file on the 400 in sync all the time. On the AS/400 side it will add records only but as records on the PC are updated I need to take those changes back to the AS/400. When records are added on the AS/400 side I need these to be also added or available on the PC. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks