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excuse the small error... Student.Class = Yr should have been an integer not a string variable. (Also, there will obviously be a Student.Score variable included in the declaration)... It's not strictly relevant but I didn't want it to divert from the question... ... Will the complete record be writt...

Apologies again, I don't know how I missed it but I've just noticed your warning about data being mixed up if its written by multiple users at the same time. I had assumed that there was some sort of automatic queuing or stack system and that a complete record will be successfully written to the ran...

I've not been able to spend any time on my project until now, so have not got around to responding to your helpful and efficient reply... Apologies for that (It'll will probably always be like this, as writing code isn't part of my job). I have a couple of hours now. Thanks for your suggestion about...

Thank you for your reply... I'm not sure what you mean by me having access to the files ... One of the other teachers will be organising the children to play the quiz on a bank of computers (as many as 10 at a time). The pupils individual scores will be recorded (written to a results file automatica...

I have a QBasic quiz program for children to use in school. Their results need to be written to a file on the network drive. I am unsure what will happen if perchance more than one student attempts to write at the same time to the results file... DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN? I have considered...