The LOCK statement in VB for random files is extremely slow when another
user already locked another record in the file.

Is there a better way?

TIA
Young

hi,
try first getting the record with get and put, if you get an error the
record is probably locked, else you can try your lock...
remember that the lock method was very fast on win3x, but on win9x it's very
very slow...
hth