In foxpro this unique ability to:
- hide deleted records (so users cannot see them, records are ignored in reports etc),
- review them if needed (set dele off),
- recall them if needed (recall command), etc.
is very useful. You can review the history, fix if the record was deleted unintentionally, etc.


>SET DELETED ON, hey? I have to ask myself how in the world it is that I didn't know about it! It certainly would have saved me a lot of time, not only here, but other places as well.
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>Thanks!
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>Jim
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>>To solve the task you may use:
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>>set dele on && deleted records will be hidden, not used
>>append from cMyCursor
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>>However in your situation the below should also work:
>>set dele oFF
>>APPEND FROM cNyCursor FOR NOT DELETED() && deleted records not accepted, no matter where they are.
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>>>There'w something I don't understand about the FOR phrase when used in "APPEND FROM" -- like, what it's for and how it's used. The documentation is not helpful.
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>>>What I'd like to do is the following:

APPEND FROM cMyCursor FOR NOT DELETED("cMyCursor")

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>>>That is, all I want to do is to append the records that are not marked as being deleted. I missing something here, hopefully somethings that simple. The documentation, for as much as I understand it, seems to say that the FOR phrase applies to the records in the table I'm appending to; what I want to do is to select records that I'm appending from.
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>>>Thanks