You're a mind reader, Terry. :)

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>DING! I think I can guess where you're going here: select out only the latest generation in the VFP side and only offer that up for the mapping side?
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>I hadn't considered that, as I've only recently been given this task. I wasn't sure in the past WHAT use previous generations would be put to (or indeed why they're kept on file), esp. on the mapping side. As the ONLY request has been for the latest generation then you may have hit the nail on the head.
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>I'll have to see my boss about that. I suppose that if ALL gen's were required to be kept in the mapping database I could always keep a cut-down, latest gen version for this purpose anyway. This would save on storage and certainly on file access time too.
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>If that IS where you were going, then NICE ONE, Sergey. Thanks!
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