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>When you do
>APPEND BLANK
>the integer fields have 0, but the numeric fields are blank. Do you think, that the behavior is inconsistent? Would it confuse the User?

FoxPro stores Numeric and Integer field in a table in a different way. Since dark ages the Numeric fileds are stored as a string with blank string been a default. The Integer field is fairly new and is stored as 4 bytes integer with 0 as default.