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                 ISAM available in Professional Edition only
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 Adds an updated record to an ISAM table, overwriting the current record.
 Requires PROISAM.EXE or PROISAMD.EXE in the programming environment
 (VBDOS.EXE).
 
    UPDATE [#]filenumber%, recordvariable
 
    ■ filenumber%       Number used in the OPEN statement to open the table;
                        integer expression with a value between 1 and 255,
                        inclusive
 
    ■ recordvariable    Record that will overwrite the current record;
                        a variable of the user-defined type tabletype
                        specified in the OPEN statement
 
 See Also
    ◄INSERT Statement►                 ◄ISAM Database Development►
    ◄PROISAM Command-Line Options►     ◄PROISAMD Command-Line Options►
    ◄RETRIEVE Statement►               ◄SEEKEQ Statement►
    ◄SEEKGE Statement►                 ◄SEEKGT Statement►