>>>If you run browse with name clause it would behave as a grid.
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>>I think we differ in interpretation here. Browse IS a grid, and all the clauses in the browse command only influence the properties of the said grid. Name clause just gives you an object reference to that grid; without that clause the grid is still created.
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>Good point, I guess this is what I meant.
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>>>However, why do you need to use browse at all?
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>>Browse command is still the simplest grid builder there is :)
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>I don't use BROWSE in application code, only in the command line.

...and debugging and in little prgs where I test this or that.

But I've seen apps where Browse is used for real, and it works. So it can have its uses; that many don't use it that way still doesn't mean it's a bad way.