>>>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.
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>>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...
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>Cursors are ok. For reports only... :(

Okay, do the same in a table, wasteful as it is :) Maybe you will have to inform him that he's asking impossible limits for a good solution to the problem...