I'm either misunderstanding the scatter command sytax or else there's something wrong with it..

I am using Visual Foxpro 3.0b on WinNT 4.0 WS w/ SP3.
I open a table. This occurs with either exclusive or shared use.

I want to create an empty array which has elements whose size / type are the same as the table. (For this example, I'll use a table called 'myTable' and array called 'myArray.') Ok, fine.. According to the documentation, (as I undersand it) the following should do the trick:

use myTable
scatter to myArray blank
display

When I do the 'display' command, I see the the field names displayed on the background of vfp and below it, I see (in the same format as the fields), the contents of the first record in table myTable.

Why is it doing this? As I understand the documentation, this is exactly what it _shouldn't_ be doing. I just want the blank array, not to have it populated with the first record.

tia,

Marc Mandel