>>hi all,
>>I want to initialise some setting in a program depending on record in a dbf file. i was thinking of
>>

>>use table1
>>if reccount() > 0
>>...
>>

>>the only problem is that this table could have a deleted record, very hard to use excl and pack and i want reccount() to only work with non-deleted records, is there a way to do this?
>>~M
>
>

USE table1
>GO BOTTOM
>IF NOT BOF() AND NOT EOF()
>...
>

That actually answers the question in the message itself and not in the title! :)