>>>Maybe another option woulld be
>>>SKIP -1
>>>SCATTER MEMVAR
>>>SKIP
>>>GATHER MEMVAR
>>don't do this if you're using table buffering -- moving out of the record will
>>save the info as is -- this can cause MAJOR problems
>
>I think you mean _record_ buffering here, right?
>
>I don't like this solution, though: say you have a unique_id field in your table. When you do the GATHER, it will overwrite the unique_id in the field you're trying to copy into....

table or record buffering, but i won't swear to it right now (too far away from my copy of vfp to test). i don't like this way either, but if i had a unique_id field in the table, i wouldn't have generated it until the user wanted to save the record.