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Visual FoxPro
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Third party products
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01050441
Message ID:
01051192
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>Hi Sergey and Valdimir
>
>>>SYS(3) may return a non-unique name when issued successionally on a fast computer. Use SUBSTR(SYS(2015), 3, 10) to create unique, legal eight character file name.
>>
>>No, help doesn't say that SUBSTR(SYS(2015)3) is safer than SYS(2015) itself.
>
>VFP 6 help does, I copied and pasted from it. Though it does not say in specific words it is safe or not, you still do not want non-unique names when issued successfully on a fast computer (which almost all are now a days). In fact I have been stung first-hand by sys(3)

Where did I referer to SYS(3)?
--sb--
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