I don't know how to include pics in the forum. So I've sent them to you directly at your rubinov@juno.com address.

Thanks!

Bob


>Could you show those two dialogs? Or email screen shots to me.
>
>>Yes. It's a carryover from many, many years ago before foxpro supported .NULL. it represents "". And I decided not to rewrite 1000s of lines, besides it is useful to represent an empty string.
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>>Bob
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>>>Is NUL a variable? Is it different depending on what database is used?
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