Dragan,

>>the result file looks the same as without the bintoc(). But I wouldn't advocate using bintoc() in your tag expressions.

>OK, I'm biased - I like this thingy. Still, what's the reason against it?

I meant that if you are just doing a PK or FK on an integer field to not put bintoc() in there because you'll have to keep bintocing everywhere for Rushmore. And VFP is doing it behind the scenes.

If you are concatenating fields bintoc() is ok.