>As Boris pointed out, you can use NVL() to resolve this.
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>The reason this happens is that you can think of .NULL. as meaning "I don't know". So if you ask VFP:
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>Is "I don't know" equal to "I don't know", what would you expect the anser to be?
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>I would ezpect it to be "I don't know"

I understand that you say but somehow this has been solved in later versions...