>Bruce,
>My clients are only developers. This particular one has developed a sort of alergy to views. As a matter of fact, given time, he would be able to turn VFP into a purely procedural language.
Argh :) Well,, I suppose you could grab an equivalent of the view by putting the records into a cursor (he's not against those too? :), and marking each cursor record (make it R/W) when a table record is deleted...
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.