What I had to add to my trigger was: * IF EVENT="UPDATE" AND (NEWREC = OLDREC) THEN RETURN *
So, as soon as it hits the trigger, if there were no changes to the update....don't bother checking anything This is because I have a few programs that (yes, it would be better to change the programs - but I don't know all of them) LOOP READ DO STUFF WRITE REPEAT With no checking to only WRITE if something changed. George _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users