>Alex,
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>You should avoid negative record numbers as eof markers as newly appended records in a buffered table get negative record numbers and so a negative recno can be a valid recno.


Hi Jim,

Oh, yes of course the record number can be negative number, thanks for your correction. Ok, then for rememberring the Eof position we can use any floating point numer (like 0.1) to correct my previous message or use character expressions as Joseph has offerred.

Alex

(Sorry for my English, but I hope you understood that I mean)