>Hi Gang!
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>I am working on a table (in developement mode). I need to insert some records (by hand) into the table in preparation to send these new tables out to customers. I wanted the new records to be IN the table at the required places so the system would not need an index to have the records in the correct order.
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>When I tried to use INSERT BLANK on the table that was opened exclusively, the new record always goes to the end of the table.....
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>And I tried turning off the index by issuing SET INDEX TO
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>Same result.
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>So, in FoxPro 8.0 SP1, has this ability been removed?
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>(If I have to , I'll use an index to force them into the correct order... but the system did not require it... )
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>Thanks!

As far as I know, this is normal behavior if you have a compact index (CDX) -- don't know if same applies if you have dBASE-style IDX files (though I suspect if you had the index open it may force similar behavior -- of course you could open the table w/o the IDX file, but then you'll have to remeber to rebuild it afterwards). That's the behavior I've seen back from VFP 6.0 -- I'll have to check if it's the same in FoxPro DOS and Windows 2.x (though wouldn't be surprised if worked the same way).