>Mark,
>
>Any difference if you *remove* the "OF mytable"? Any better if you put the alias mytable (at the end) within quotes? Remove the ORDER word?
>
>Some things to try.
>
>Good luck,
>
>Jim N
>
>>Anyone ever use the SEEK command? Alright, who has used it in the following format:
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>>SEEK myvalue ORDER TAG mytag OF mytable IN mytable
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>>????
>>
>>My goal -- simple. Move the record pointer in a table other than the current workarea; it saves storing the current alias, selecting the target table, seeking, and then selecting the original table. Only problem is -- doesn't seem to want to work. I get errors including "Variable COMPANY not found" (COMPANY happens to be a field in mytable, but this command above doesn't have anything to do with that field as far as I can tell).
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>>I have a primary index key using a CDX file set to 'mytag'.
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>>What's strange is that I've actually gotten this command to work before, but then that one quit working.
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>>Hope someone can clue me in!
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>>Sincerely,
>>
>>Mark
>>mark@remarkable-systems.com


Jim,

I tried removing the 'of' portion. It seemed to do better, but also moved the pointer in the current workarea -- not just the target table.